I can just about enjoy it. There is an initial hurdle, where I feel like, oh goodness me, I'm going to watch… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I love the breadth and space you get to explore character in so-called serialized TV, the novelistic element of maybe being able… — 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
Getting under the surface of real-life humans' poker faces humans is hard in a sitcom, even a drama. — 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
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 Image
I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Unlike many hour-long scripted American dramas, 'Succession' has very few standing sets. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
