Quotes by Television Directors

Kick it in the Ass

Kim Manners

Any performer tries to perform music as if for the first time, with all that energy and excitement that comes from discovering a new piece--maybe trying to recreate the memory of falling in love with a piece when hearing it first as a child--and just as people regularly say of a brilliant conductor that they seem to conduct as if recreating the energy an audience must have felt when the piece was first played decades, even centuries, before, so too I think we need to communicate our knowledge with the passion we first encountered as children.

Armando Iannucci

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

Peter Grimwade

Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier's mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him.

Peter Grimwade

Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.

Peter Grimwade