#d

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

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

— Dick Wolf

#canceled #complacent #gets #show #soon

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

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.' ↗

— Dick Wolf

#i #scripts #somebody #tell

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#believe #century #come #half #i

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#big #big time #disrupt #down #every

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#because #delivers #eyeballs #go #nothing

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#because #different #entities #like #management