Television Quotes by Jesse Armstrong

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

Wars are hard to look at head-on.

— Jesse Armstrong

I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life.

— Jesse Armstrong

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

I like people to make their own decisions.

— Jesse Armstrong

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

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

Trump is just extraordinarily unusual.

— Jesse Armstrong

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

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

Unlike many hour-long scripted American dramas, 'Succession' has very few standing sets.

— Jesse Armstrong

There's loads of succession stories to draw on.

— Jesse Armstrong

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

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

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