Dick Wolf Quotes

I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere.

You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

I remember in the '70s or the early '80s, there were a lot of viewpoints represented on TV. And I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened in the '90s.

When I look back at the Nineties, I realise there wasn't very much TV I wanted to do.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

This whole idea of too much TV, I think is really gross. Because I feel like it's mostly white men who are saying it. And it's like, 'Yeah, man, there's too much TV for you, but by nature of there being so much TV, there are other voices being represented.' Isn't that a wonderful thing?

I never watched much TV at home - it just wasn't part of our home culture.

I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

My definition of media? 'Anything which owns attention.' This could be a game or, perhaps, a platform. Ironically, the media tends to associate media with publishing - digital or otherwise - which, in turn, is too narrow a way to consider not only the media but also the reality of the competitive landscape and media-focused innovation.

I don't watch TV that much, but I like to get series on DVD and watch them all back-to-back.

In a media landscape that has grown in unimaginable ways, there are more projects that have come along now than ever. While the number of projects has grown, many players are vying for that audience.

Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens.