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I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
Dick Wolf
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Dick Wolf
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 20
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Richard Anthony Wolf
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
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I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'
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I hardly see myself as a futurist.
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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.
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If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.
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I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
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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.
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I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
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I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
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[My] dream writers room: 'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural.
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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.
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