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I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions. -- Lee Child
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. -- Aaron Sorkin
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. -- Russell T Davies
Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree. -- John Ridley
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. -- David Sarnoff
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. -- Rowan Atkinson
Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing. -- Louise Fletcher
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. -- Anne-Marie Duff
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. -- Sefi Atta
News is the best drama on television because it's real. -- Deborah Turness
Shameless' is going to shake up television. Any drama is good drama. Bring it. -- Justin Chatwin
It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television. -- John Barrowman
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not. -- John Hodgman
I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama. -- Lyndsy Fonseca
I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film. -- Orlando Bloom
I love a bit of political drama; 'The West Wing' is probably my favourite television series of all time. -- David Tennant
One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama. -- Alice Lowe
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort. -- Tom Shales
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. -- Julianne Moore
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.' -- Robert Carlyle
Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television. -- Thomas Schlamme
Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons. -- Gillian Armstrong
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on. -- Penelope Keith
One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity. -- Glenn Howerton
I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. -- Ridley Scott
Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. -- Ruth Rendell
'Shameless' is going to shake up television. Any drama is good drama. Bring it. -- Justin Chatwin
Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama. -- Simon Barnes
I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days. -- Debi Mazar
I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do. -- Bridget Regan
If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around. -- Rebecca Eaton
I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years. -- Todd Haynes
I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers. -- Matthew Lillard

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