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Top 25 Dick Wolf Quotes (2025 Update)

Dick Wolf Quote: “It’s show business. No show, no business.”

1. “It’s show business. No show, no business.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “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.”

2. “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 Quote: “The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.”

3. “The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “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.”

5. “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 Quote: “The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.”

6. “The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don’t go out on strike because then there’s no work and no potential of work.”

7. “I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don’t go out on strike because then there’s no work and no potential of work.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.”

8. “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 Quote: “I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.”

9. “I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.”

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

Dick Wolf Quote: “There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.”

11. “There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.”

12. “There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “This was a war waged by damaged individuals, making victims of the innocent. Trying to be the catcher in the rye, as Fisk had, was insanity. Then again, despite the Sisyphean aspect of the job, somebody had to do it. Or at least try.”

13. “This was a war waged by damaged individuals, making victims of the innocent. Trying to be the catcher in the rye, as Fisk had, was insanity. Then again, despite the Sisyphean aspect of the job, somebody had to do it. Or at least try.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “I hardly see myself as a futurist.”

15. “I hardly see myself as a futurist.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.”

16. “The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “If you’re going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.”

18. “If you’re going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “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.”

19. “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 Quote: “I think most people don’t react well to being screamed at. It’s counterproductive.”

20. “I think most people don’t react well to being screamed at. It’s counterproductive.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “People recognize certain things, like ‘D’ means ‘this dialogue stinks.’ We’re dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.”

21. “People recognize certain things, like ‘D’ means ‘this dialogue stinks.’ We’re dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.”

22. “I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “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.”

23. “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 Quote: “I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.”

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

Dick Wolf Quote: “And the consumer doesn’t care. They don’t watch networks, they watch TV shows.”

25. “And the consumer doesn’t care. They don’t watch networks, they watch TV shows.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it’s also disingenuous to say, ‘We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.’”

26. “Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it’s also disingenuous to say, ‘We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.’”

Dick Wolf Quote: “Traffic heading south through Manhattan was horrible, even with NYPD motorcycle escorts. The gridlock was such that there was nowhere for them to go. Nothing to do but wait for the clots to work themselves through.”

27. “Traffic heading south through Manhattan was horrible, even with NYPD motorcycle escorts. The gridlock was such that there was nowhere for them to go. Nothing to do but wait for the clots to work themselves through.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.”

28. “The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.”

Dick Wolf Quote: “These men represent the blend of state-of-the-art technology and shrewd old-school intelligence that makes our city as safe as anyplace on the planet.”

29. “These men represent the blend of state-of-the-art technology and shrewd old-school intelligence that makes our city as safe as anyplace on the planet.”

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