Tag Archives: Joseph Wambaugh

Civil servants take forever to do anything. Joseph Wambaugh

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. Joseph Wambaugh

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case. Joseph Wambaugh

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen. Joseph Wambaugh

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating. Joseph Wambaugh

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up. Joseph Wambaugh

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that. Joseph Wambaugh

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. Joseph Wambaugh

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river. Joseph Wambaugh