Genuine Inner Freedom Is The Ultimate Aim

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.

Unless You Loosen The Hold That Your Past Has On You, Your Future Will Unfold In Much The Same Way . . . It Is Time To Begin Writing A New Script That Accurately Reflects The Beautiful, Powerful, And Worthy Being You Are.

Lawrence Gilliard Jr. Is A Fine Actor And I've Always Felt Some Residual Guilt That We Killed Him So Early In The Wire. It Was Always Planned That Way; We Didn't Kill Him Because Of Anything He Did, We Don't Kill Off Actors Just To Do It.

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.

Choices Are Much More Practical And Small When You're Dealing With A Real Story. It's About Execution, It's Not About Content.