Available Quote by Michael Hirst Download Open image “When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market.” — Michael Hirst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Available Did Information Investing Market Massive Ready-made
With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material, I mean so many books and so much stuff about what they really said.… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Everything in 'The Tudors' is initially based on my historical research, and the fact is that the most unlikely scenes were the ones which… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Most of the version of Tudor history we know is through the eyes of Henry VIII. — Charlotte Hope Copy Share Image
We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama… — Annabelle Wallis Copy Share Image
I discovered the Internet. I started seeing how much company information was out there - they didn't think it would be accessible to a… — Clare Rewcastle Brown Copy Share Image
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here,… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
For 'Vikings,' we have to do so much outside shooting, and it's normally - I think with American shows, it'll be 60 or 70… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material, I mean so many books and so much stuff about what they really said.… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I couldn't give 'Vikings' away - I mean, I love these people. And I'm not sure anyone else writing it would necessarily have the… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened,… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
People offer me loads of stuff, and some of it I like, but I just can't do it because I can't write it all.… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all. — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image