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"I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down."
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"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
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"I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build."
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Explore more quotes by Dick Wolf

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric."

"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."
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