Awakening into love is a lifelong path. David Simon More Quotes by David Simon More Quotes From David Simon We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's not distinctly American, as witnessed by the fact that there are film communities throughout the world that tell stories to their own cultural liking. David Simon community stories culture We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that. David Simon response proof america In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism. David Simon careful katrina form 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. David Simon attention people fiction 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. David Simon reading mean america 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. David Simon tvs ordinary drama Blue jeans have gone around the world. But that's a product. We market blue jeans better, just as we market film better. But you can't tell me that if America didn't exist, the culture of movies wouldn't exist. It's not a distinctly American art form. David Simon jeans blue art A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can. David Simon tv-shows tvs people I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under Eisenhower. Do people think America wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under Eisenhower in the '50s? Nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "We're taxing ourselves into oblivion." Yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. It's been purchased. David Simon country america thinking Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future. David Simon different race culture What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. David Simon only story you reason
