Jaime Winstone Quotes

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.

'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors.

I'm always in awe at how fast television is and how quickly you're called upon to be 100 percent invested in a character with the lines.

Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people's eye.

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

I'm very focused on 'Dexter' right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

The reason that some motion-capture films don't work is if the scripts are not good, and the characters aren't engaging, then you don't believe in the journey, and you're not connected to it. It's not the technology's fault.

I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.

That first episode of 'Newsroom,' the way it just cooked, I thought it was really good.

The quality of television is becoming so good from an actor standpoint, where you get to do these amazing scenes with amazing directors and cinematography.