Top 23 Quotes by Joseph Wambaugh

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

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

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

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.

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

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

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

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

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.