When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, Who are these people? Why should we watch them? – Dick Wolf
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
It was like in Samoa when theyd 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
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail. – Dick Wolf
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isnt fiction at all. – Theodore Sturgeon