40 Quotes by David L. Wolper

Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.

Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.

I believe a mini-series has two audiences. The first is the media. Then I go for the television audience.

I liked the clear morality of 1941, when you had no doubt about good and evil. There was a lot of idealism, people fighting for a cause. People are searching for morality today.

If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.

I don't fall in love with inanimate objects. I don't bond with them. I only fall in love with people.

I believe that religion and politics should not mix. Both should be a part of somebody's life - but not together.

I couldn't get my first film on the air. The first film I did was called 'The Race For Space,' about the U.S.-Soviet space race. The networks had a policy that I found out about the hard way. I even had a sponsor for my program, but the networks wouldn't put it on because it was independently produced.

My roots are documentaries.