Crime Drama Quotes

Yeah, I love 'Boardwalk Empire.'

People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

'Sopranos' was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I'm learning the craft.

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

'Black Mass' was a really great experience.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

I mean, I love Walter White.

I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

Sometimes I'm like, Wow, 'Criminal Minds' is deep.

Nothing I do will ever compare with 'Breaking Bad.'

I was a teenager when 'Miami Vice' came out, and that was such a huge show.

I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of inherent conflict in procedural shows. I have a lot of respect for police officers and the work that they do. There's a lot of nobility to depicting what these officers do on a day to day basis.

I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

I think I have made too many cop films.

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.

I've been watching The Wire recently.

The thought of a man being the murderer of his own daughter in the Twin Peaks was anathema to me. At the time, I had a 2-year-old daughter of my own, and that possibility really turned me off. I was praying that I wouldn't be the one.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

I'm delighted to join the cast of 'Field Of Blood: The Dead Hour.'