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
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.
People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."
More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.
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.
The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it is not journalism. It doesn't have the rigor of journalism. It doesn't have the proof positive that facts provide. So it can be readily dismissed as mere propaganda. But I can certainly reach more people.
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason—instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.
A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.
The best # gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, # happier , and more at # peace .
Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money...
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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