Timothy Omundson Quotes

I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the same time so real. You can open a drawer on set, and even though the camera never sees what's inside, it'll be filled with genuine 1940s documents.

It was really fun to play a period piece because I've never done that before and it's completely different.

I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start losing their sense of humour or their personalities.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change of pace for you." And, I'm like, "Not really." When you're doing a science fiction movie, it's almost exactly the same.

The girls in 'Downton Abbey' do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you're living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it.

For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market.

The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.

I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.

I would love to do a British period drama.

I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of being loose in the world. So, I try to do a little bit of research, just so that I can feel like I'm grounded, but then I try to bring as much of my human understanding that I can, under the filter of it being 1865.

'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors.

You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.

Sometimes when you're working on a period piece, there's this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.