Lance Reddick Quotes

One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.'

I watched 'The Wire' religiously.

It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

'The Wire' was a combination of great TV and great theater.

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

I love 'Game of Thrones' and 'Breaking Bad.'

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.

I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might.

My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

'The East' could easily be a TV show.

My films are a personal reflection on the impact that the state - the system and the world - has on me.

Ideology never put food on my table.

I am a social realist writer.

'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.