come from baltimore, i grew up -- it's in my dna and i've tried to show different aspects of baltimore in the films and in the homicide tv series. >> what is it about the city that's kind of lent itself to dramatic representation so well? >> it's a city of characters really colorful character, and, you know i hear those -- i hear those sounds and how they behave and how they talk and i've tried to, you know, bring that to television and to film over the years. and that's my background. you know, a lot of times when i'm, you know, going out to promote a film they'll say, you know, why baltimore? and i say well, that's where i come from. i mean, those are the people that i know and i hear and i try to depict different times in the films i've dealt with in the '40s, the '50s, the '60s, and of course "homicide," which was