Drama Quality Quotes

How can you turn down Marks and Gran? Their scripts are so rich in texture.

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

You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.

What I've observed is that television in the last decade has increased to something that's almost unrecognizable. They are feature films. That's a huge shift, and it's something the audience expects. They still may want to watch their half-hour sitcom, but when they watch scripted drama, they expect the standard.

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.

It is very difficult to make something like slice-of-life interesting. I don't think many people have done the slice-of-life dramas as good as TVF has done it.

I think it's really important to have good quality drama on TV.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.