DAVID SIMON (CREATOR): One of the reasons we stayed on the show also is we never went over budget. Every dollar we got was put on-screen. It was not a show that had big trailers and lobsters at the craft services table. We didn’t put people up in the nicest hotels. We found the rates and we shot it in Baltimore, where things were cheaper. We tried to put it all on the screen, and we didn’t have a lot. I know a guy who did three episodes on The Sopranos. They were shooting seventeen days an episode. We were shooting eleven.
