We figured out the problem first, and then we’d spend three days trying to figure out how to get out of it. What’s the tightest box you can get into, what’s the biggest moral dilemma you can put your character into? David Mamet keeps talking about — and I realize I’m quoting Mamet a lot lately — how good drama and conflict isn’t choosing between right and wrong, it’s choosing between two wrongs. We did a lot of that on “The Shield.” I think a lot of times, choosing between right and wrong, Vic would choose the right. But he wasn’t afraid of choosing between two wrongs.
— What’s Alan Watching?: The Shield: Shawn Ryan post-finale Q&A
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