If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'
From Dick Wolf
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
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.
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.
TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.
And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.
I hardly see myself as a futurist.
The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
It's show business. No show, no business.
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.
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