- Nov 07, 2020
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- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked for any help.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.
- John
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only have one idol: John Lennon.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 percent inside and a little bit outside, but with us, it's almost 70 percent outside, and that's huge and really difficult.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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 just my take on it.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic.
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- Nov 07, 2020