Dramas Quote by Maxine Peake

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two…

— Paul McGann

Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're…

— Colson Whitehead

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the…

— Jarvis Cocker

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

— Maura Tierney

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

— Milan Kundera

Sometimes when things don't go to plan it makes the best telly. Our audiences love it when things go wrong.

— Michaela Strachan

I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever have on…

— Ant McPartlin

I think in telling a good story there has to be ups and downs with any character, and you can't just have everything go…

— Chris Sullivan

There's a degree to which leaving an afternoon show to go to America to present telly is borderline delusional.

— Richard Bacon

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

— Julianna Baggott

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

— Donald Miller

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

— Tom Hiddleston