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Dick Wolf

"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."

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"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."

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"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."

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"As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight."

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"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."

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"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

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"Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue."

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"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."

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"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."

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"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy."

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"Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy."

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"I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible."
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"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."
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"I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive."
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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 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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"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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"You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes."
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