David Simon Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.”