JK: You need to talk to Clark Johnson and become a big-time Hollywood director. What did you bring to it that
was different?DW: I thought I was going to transform everyone's performances, give the actors more attention than we usually get, and then you realize it's TV on a very tight schedule, and the first thing that goes out the window is actor's rehearsals. We did do a bit more rehearsal, but I don't think I did any better than any other director on the acting or performance side. I don't know what I brought to it, really, other than a sort of insider's view. No, I got to tell actors I've been working with for five years what is irritating about their performances. (Laughs)
JK: Back to season 1, the season everybody has forgotten, and the "fuck" scene.
DW: Everyone's forgotten everything BUT that scene.
JK: What do you remember about that day? It would seem to me to be impossible to keep a straight face.
DW: It was. We got through a lot of film that day, laughing a lot. I just thought David Simon was trying to be David Mamet. McLarney said it, that police, given their vocabulary, could completely communicate using that one word. I thought they put too many "fucks" into it, because they added some later, and I thought there was a bit of overkill there.
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