Jesse Armstrong : (8)

" It’s sad ending ‘Peep Show,’ but it’ll be fun starting some new shows. " - Jesse Armstrong

" All the dramas I admire most – ‘Six Feet Under,’ ‘The Sopranos’ – even when the scenes aren’t laugh-out-loud funny, per se, there’s a comic twist that gives the stories an energy. " - 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 England but there’s plenty of Welsh accents to be heard, lots of Welsh-speaking chapels dotted around the place and, on market day, the place would be overrun with farmers from over the border. " - Jesse Armstrong

" With an unscripted take, you let the thing live and bring an extra level of life to the performance. Sometimes you get extra jokes because the actors are super smart and see a funnier or more true way to go with the scene. " - Jesse Armstrong

" Catch-22′ is the big daddy of funny war novels. It’s capacious and occasionally rambling. It’s a bible of literate comedy: you can find anything you want inside – it’s all in there. " - Jesse Armstrong

" The camera reacts with the speed of a human being rather than somebody who knows what’s going to happen next. And that lets the comedy and drama play in a way which I think subliminally makes you feel like you’re in the room. " - Jesse Armstrong

" I can just about enjoy it. There is an initial hurdle, where I feel like, oh goodness me, I’m going to watch a sitcom or a drama and it’s my competition. But luckily quality tends to override that, so when I have been watching ‘Him and Her’ or ‘Girls’ or any of the shows I admire, you simply enjoy them. " - Jesse Armstrong

" Why do I bother having all my stupid opinions? I mean, really, my ever evolving Balkan policy of the mid-1990s – what did I think was going to happen? That I was going to be supersubbed out of Oddbins and into the Foreign Office? " - Jesse Armstrong