I`m interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
- Laura DernOnce a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- Norman MailerThe guys we were stealing from in The Wire are the Greeks. In our heads we`re writing a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it`s the Postmodern institutions that are the gods. And they are gods. And no one is bigger.
- David Simon