You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it. — 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
The writers' room is an open forum where anything mad or weird that aggressively shakes up the show can be suggested and… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's a lucky kink for comedy writers that particular English obsession and interest with class and social difference. It maybe is not… — 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
My writing partner and I usually write separately, because if we write together we are liable to go a little nuts. The… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
As a writer you often watch things with a certain distance.. More often, you're worried that something that you have invented is… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's a good tip for writers, that - write with an actor in mind. Even if you have no hope of getting… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
With my writing partner, Sam Bain, I have gone on to write for lots of shows, including our co-creation 'Peep Show,' two… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Writing a sitcom compared with writing a novel is a bit like the difference between going on a big, noisy group holiday… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you're writing a show about modern media moguls, Rupert Murdoch and his family are an incredibly important model and some of… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Wimbledon fortnight is always a testing time for the home worker. I spend most of it on the phone to my writing… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
The truth is that when writing a TV show or a film you are a part of a team. And though you… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Sitcom characters, my writing partner Sam Bain and I sometimes tell each other, are not normally self-conscious. Or not quite. The best… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Without sounding defensive, I would say that sometimes TV critics assume that after a few episodes the writers 'finally understand the characters,'… — 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
