Hanging around a lot of really intelligent people for months on end, talking about whatever's in the news, is fun to me. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
For people who come from powerful families, there is nothing in life quite as interesting as being at court. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
All powerful people make foolish decisions and end up in humiliating and embarrassing situations, as well as wielding their power. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've always found it easy to write comedy in the area where people have strong emotions. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Roy Chubby Brown's offensive material is disgusting to me, an offensive beating-down of people who have already been beaten down plenty, culturally… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's touching that people only think there's one of these around. Dynastic families are all around us. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
You can't control how things that you're involved with are received. But 'The Thick of It' wasn't intended as an instruction manual.… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I wouldn't defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I guess Trump is gone, but the shape that he gave to the American political and social environment - that still resonates.… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
You've got to trust the audience, and hopefully if you do interesting work you'll get an audience that are interested and engaged. But if… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
Because Oswestry is very much an Anglo-Welsh mix it can lead you to feeling a bit bipolar sometimes. I mean, you're in England but… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
There are lots of great characters in fiction who viewers and readers have engaged with that behave badly. Great characters can be unfaithful. They… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
The writers' room is an open forum where anything mad or weird that aggressively shakes up the show can be suggested and considered. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
I do think it's really tough being super-rich, really hard-working and wanting to get some sort of immortality by passing on the organisation to… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
Most of us now have opinions on such things as road tolling, the U.S. position on climate change, and the correct colour of a… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
Unlike many hour-long scripted American dramas, 'Succession' has very few standing sets. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
As a private individual, it's probably not worth having a foreign policy of your own at all. Not unless you own at least a… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
Why do I bother having all my stupid opinions? I mean, really, my ever evolving Balkan policy of the mid-1990s - what did I… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
There's an underlying sense that your family should accord you a greater level of safety in your interactions with them. When that's violated, it's… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
