Comparison Quote by Damian Lewis

British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different.

— Jed Mercurio

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

— Andy Muschietti

The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.

— Peter Hedges

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

— James Salter

The thing with America is that... however you want to denigrate them for being crass or whatever, with a film that they like and…

— John Michael McDonagh

Never mind that British history is liberally dotted with ethnic minorities; to most scriptwriters they simply don't exist.

— Adrian Lester

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

— Van Morrison

If you work in the studio system in America, they've almost got to the point where a computer programme could write scripts. Effectively, they…

— Simon Beaufoy

For me, the business ventures in England were far more easier. Everything was done by the book, the protocols were far more easy to…

— Raj Kundra

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

— Avi Arad

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

— Helen McCrory

I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the U.K.

— Ella Mai