99 Quotes by Rege-Jean Page

My father spoke with something very similar to a 1920s newscaster type of English, and I learnt that accent of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe. So I learnt that, and I learnt how to copy it, and I learnt how to shift in and out of it, but also talk like my mother's relatives in the village.

It's not always about reaching the widest audience. It's about how you reach people, and in that sense, there's no difference between a little room in a back basement with ten people if you hit them hard enough, there's a nobility to reaching ten people. They are not irrelevant because they are less than 10,000.

My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.

I used to be in music, in a punk band in my teens. It was very teenage of me, I wanted to find a way to be loud and angry and righteous and that seemed the most productive way to do so.

'Bridgerton' is something a bit like if Jane Austen met Gossip Girl' and maybe like 45 Shades of Grey.'

I'm very wary of heroes. I try not to make them in the first place, but there was a phrase Idris Elba spoke a few years back, where he said 'It's not about being the next Denzel, it's about being the first you,' and I really took that to heart.

Everyone is worthy of finding love and enjoying escapist fantasies of a life of dancing, romance, and ambition.

It's just so much fun when you're working with folks who are not just at the top of their game but reinventing the game. It's like a whole new machine.

'Bridgerton' is a lot like the period dramas that you know and love, but nothing like it's forerunner. It's faster, funny, sexier, and more glamorous.