Jesse Armstrong

Wars are hard to look at head-on.

— Jesse Armstrong

War isn't funny, obviously.

— Jesse Armstrong

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

I like people to make their own decisions.

— Jesse Armstrong

There's loads of succession stories to draw on.

— Jesse Armstrong

Talking about satire feels like death.

— Jesse Armstrong

As a comedy writer, I work largely from home.

— Jesse Armstrong

Trump is just extraordinarily unusual.

— Jesse Armstrong

Oswestry's a bit in the middle of nowhere - quite tough, and quite English, in the way border towns are.

— Jesse Armstrong

It's sad ending 'Peep Show,' but it'll be fun starting some new shows.

— Jesse Armstrong

Kids are as discerning as adults, if anything they are quicker and clearer in knowing what they like.

— Jesse Armstrong

Political parties can be pretty internecine, and pretty savage.

— Jesse Armstrong

I've always found it easy to write comedy in the area where people have strong emotions.

— Jesse Armstrong

You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it.

— Jesse Armstrong

If you have seven homes, every room is not a beautifully curated expression of your personality.

— Jesse Armstrong

The human propensity to having opinions must, I guess, have started as a pretty useful evolutionary tool.

— Jesse Armstrong

Everyone has tacit levels of trust, don't we? In every interaction that takes place in our professional and personal lives we have…

— Jesse Armstrong

In my own experience with films, books, plays, TV, I don't want somebody telling me what it means, because I think I…

— Jesse Armstrong

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

A lot of research went into 'Succession.' I wrote the pilot solo, so there was a good deal of my own research…

— Jesse Armstrong

For people who come from powerful families, there is nothing in life quite as interesting as being at court.

— Jesse Armstrong

Character is key. Once you've got that voice going, everything else can follow. If you've also got the right tone, you're in…

— Jesse Armstrong

All powerful people make foolish decisions and end up in humiliating and embarrassing situations, as well as wielding their power.

— Jesse Armstrong

We always knew that we could write what it's like to be men together, bickering, but also having this fondness.

— Jesse Armstrong

My writing partner and I usually write separately, because if we write together we are liable to go a little nuts. The…

— 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…

— 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…

— Jesse Armstrong

Why do I bother having all my stupid opinions? I mean, really, my ever evolving Balkan policy of the mid-1990s - what…

— Jesse Armstrong

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

Far too interesting are times when you wake up to find that the tube line you take to work has been blown…

— Jesse Armstrong

The best bit about having a collaborator is plot. Plot is quite hard to get right. It is a testing intellectual exercise…

— 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.…

— Jesse Armstrong

You can put all your philistine-dom on TV.

— Jesse Armstrong

I wouldn't like to say I'm a class warrior.

— Jesse Armstrong

I guess I'm interested in politics - I'm interested in ideas and ideology.

— Jesse Armstrong

I read about lots of media moguls: Sumner Redstone, Conrad Black, Robert Maxwell.

— Jesse Armstrong

If you're making a satirical show and you're aiming to change something, I'd say you're on a fool's errand.

— Jesse Armstrong

It's touching that people only think there's one of these around. Dynastic families are all around us.

— Jesse Armstrong

It doesn't worry me, the idea of coming up with new stuff.

— Jesse Armstrong

There's that saying: 'No man is a hero to his valet.' It's the same between flatmates.

— Jesse Armstrong