97 Quotes by Jed Mercurio

Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing.

I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated.

Certain people in politics and the press felt there was a political spin to 'Cardiac Arrest,' but there was no political agenda to what I was doing.

With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of violence, edginess, darkness.

Sci-fi gives you the scope to do grand stories.

I am a social realist writer.

I would compare my 'Frankenstein' to Cronenberg's remake of 'The Fly.' The monster in the original Fifties version of 'The Fly' was a crude, anatomical combination of man and insect, whereas Cronenberg's version exploited knowledge of DNA to depict him as a transgenic chimera.

I like to write about characters who are conflicted.

One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity.