David Simon
David Simon
David Judah Simonis an American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve yearsand wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streetsand co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhoodwith Ed Burns. The former book was the basis for the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street, on which Simon served as a writer and producer. Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO mini-series The...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth9 February 1960
CountryUnited States of America
While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.
Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.
Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.
The show is structured like a visual novel of sorts, ... And these writers understand the complexity of theme.
We will address American ideas about equal opportunity and how true we are to that ideal,
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
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You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that.
We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.
What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has
African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.