97 Quotes by Jed Mercurio

I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions.

There's something very frightening about the vulnerability of mothers and babies.

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.

I like the differences between American and British television dramas.

I don't normally think of a specific actor. I concentrate on the character, and then when we get into pre-production, that's how names come up.

It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content.

What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.

When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget is much smaller, and a returning cop series would take away from the Stephen Poliakoff/David Hare stuff that they love to commission.

People don't always understand the way it works with casting. TV projects tend to be commissioned to screen at a particular time of year, so your shooting dates are chosen to meet that. And then the casting is a matter of choosing from the actors who are available for those dates.