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- "I've never seen a character on prime-time television that was outright homophobic, that didn't hide it, that hated white people, that didn't hide it, that was a beast to his children and didn't hide it... I've never had the opportunity to do that." (en)
- "The whole idea just flooded through my head: I’d do it like King Lear or The Lion in Winter. Make the main character like a dying king, and he’s got three sons." (en)
- "The Jay Z story, which very much inspired Lucious Lyon, certain elements of Lucious Lyon, was that story. For me the story of people who have some sort of criminal past, or gangster past are not limited to black culture. ... Our goal is to tell a great story, and to do the best show we can. You can cross the line and just be totally inappropriate, but we're not doing that. ... You know, Joe Kennedy too, is another ." (en)
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