Joseph Wambaugh is a famous Writer from USA, he/she is 87 years old and still alive, born January 22, 1937.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 23 quotes who is written / told by Joseph.
23 Famous quotes by Joseph Wambaugh
"The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore"
"I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating"
"I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again"
"As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people"
"The time has come for professional jurors"
"I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while"
"When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional"
"The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up"
"No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book"
"I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books"
"What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it"
"Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are"
"When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice"
"Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case"
"The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to"
"I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases"
"Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued"
"You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it"
