Jed Mercurio

When I'm writing, I am just doing what feels right for me.

— Jed Mercurio

'Frankenstein' is a timeless classic. As science advances, it becomes more relevant, not less. Its fantasy moves closer to fact, its horrors…

— Jed Mercurio

I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of…

— Jed Mercurio

Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm.

— Jed Mercurio

For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected.

— Jed Mercurio

I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated.

— Jed Mercurio

In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder…

— Jed Mercurio

If you look at American medical fiction written by doctors, like 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem and 'The Blood of…

— Jed Mercurio

I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics.

— Jed Mercurio

It's important that the actor doesn't feel like they're working in a vacuum. If the actor is told, 'Oh, it's a secret;…

— Jed Mercurio

I'm always thinking about my work, always thinking about where it's taking me.

— Jed Mercurio

The footballer I've admired most in the last ten years is Zinedine Zidane... one of those rare individuals who had the skill…

— Jed Mercurio

'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic…

— Jed Mercurio

I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.

— Jed Mercurio

So with 'Ascent,' one of the things I wanted to do was not make it too remote from the reader, for it…

— Jed Mercurio

The problem with individual opinion is that it doesn't necessary correlate with what the mass audience is thinking.

— Jed Mercurio

It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content.

— Jed Mercurio

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.

— Jed Mercurio

It's always useful to know that people are emotionally invested in a series because it means that you can take them down…

— Jed Mercurio

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.

— Jed Mercurio

The part of my life where my character was defined was at work because of the decisions I make and the things…

— Jed Mercurio

The idea of a physical stigma is quite appealing. When I wrote the book of 'Bodies,' there was a lot of that…

— Jed Mercurio

'Line of Duty' had originally been conceived as a returnable drama, with the premise being that the fictional anticorruption unit AC-12 would…

— Jed Mercurio

I believe that properly regulated research in stem-cell biotechnology will lead to many valuable improvements in medical treatment and that objections on…

— Jed Mercurio

What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.

— Jed Mercurio