Dick Wolf

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#art #away #complete #cut #deliver

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#bets #changes #comedy #drama #mass

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#behind #grim #like #locals #movie

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#consumer #networks #shows #tv #tv shows

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#canceled #complacent #gets #show #soon

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#end #everybody #how #integrated #know

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#chance #fail #getting #i #i do

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#based #because #i #like #make

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#buildings #cars #elevators #establishing #get

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#best #best work #get #i #i was raised