125 Quotes by David Simon


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    The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

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    What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

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    While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

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    It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

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    It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

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    On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

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    There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

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    I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

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