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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

'The Wire' is similar to 'The Walking Dead' in so far as everybody pulling for everybody else to get to the turning point of the story.

I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

I watched 'The Wire' religiously.

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.