“I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.” IfsThinkingWritingPainFilmCertainViolenceTelevisionDramaIntelligentSakeHolesInstanceAgentsOffensiveTelevision Drama Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.” PeopleIfsKindEndsShowsBigsMightChoicesSituationMoralNiceFailingTelevisionTerribleDramaSafeCupsTeaVillainTerrible ThingsNaughtyCups Of TeaNot PrettyKind PeopleMoral ChoicesTelevision Drama Author:Russell T Davies
“I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.” IfsChildrenPlayClassTelevisionKingsDramaSeriesBetrayalChiefsVillagePlaywrightTreasonHeadmastersTelevision Drama Author:Sefi Atta
“One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.” NeedsMadeStatesFilmCompanySituationTelevisionDramaAspectTheaterCurrentsStudiosCinemaJapanExposedExtensionsAdaptationNeed A ChangeBroadcastingGood FilmsAnimeTelevision Drama Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.” WantComedyTelevisionDramaDegreesRelevantTelevision Drama Author:John Ridley
“It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.” WayCharacterModernTelevisionKeysDramaDemandLowsLow KeyTelevision Drama Author:Rowan Atkinson
“What directors of television drama constantly tell you is 'Don't act it. Don't try. Don't emphasise that word'. Whereas with someone like Blackadder, even though he's a relatively low key character in a way, he did relish the lines that he had and the words that he was given, with a lot of inflection.” WayTryingCharacterGivenLinesTelevisionKeysDramaDirectorsLowsRelishLow KeyTelevision Drama Author:Rowan Atkinson
“I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.” FirstsDecisionTelevisionDramaCousinRight DecisionMake The Right DecisionTrust MyselfTelevision Drama Author:Lee Child
“Fake is not a word I like to use because there's nothing fake about what I do. It's a show, it's a predetermined outcome; we're putting on a television drama, action, comedy, whatever you want to call it - but it's not fake. Fake would be if I was just about to take a body slam, and my stuntman did it. Fake would be if I was going to take a chair shot to the head, and the chair was made of rubber. I'll tell the world that it's a show, but I hate the word fake. It's such an unfair term to us.” IfsWorldWantMadeUseShowsBodyWould BeActionHateTermComedyTelevisionDramaShotsI HateFakeOutcomesChairsUnfairSlamRubberPredeterminedStuntmanTelevision Drama Author:Chris Jericho
“It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.” FirstsArtistNationsLevelsTelevisionDramaTasteRaisesRateDramaticCaliberTelevision Drama Book:Pioneering in television, prophecy and fulfillment: excerpts from speeches and statements Source: Pioneering in television, prophecy and fulfillment: excerpts from speeches and statements