American Quote by Kevin Barry

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I…

— Aidan Gillen

The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House…

— Martin Freeman

'The Sopranos,' 'Lost,' 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Wire' - those are my all-times.

— Sal Vulcano

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and…

— Tahar Rahim

I think HBO and a couple of the other cable channels in America are making some of the best television that's ever been made.

— Liam Cunningham

I like some of the HBO type shows: 'Deadwood,' 'Sopranos,' that kind of thing.

— John Part

The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.

— Nick Hornby

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

— Jeff Daniels

I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years.…

— Jo Nesbo

The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so…

— Jerry Ferrara

More and more, you're seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the…

— Adam Scott

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film,…

— Peter Dinklage