125 Quotes by David Simon

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.