Morten Tyldum Quotes

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from.

I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense of being human and of being Mexican, even if they don't in any explicit way address these issues in their writing.

I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

I love 'Happy Valley.' I love 'Transparent.' I love 'Fleabag.'

When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

I am very aware that I'm the product of growing up in England and the tradition of designing and making, of England industrialising first.

Understand me, Hollywood miniseries are very popular in England. But British miniseries make a tremendous mark on the national consciousness. They become part of the national culture and mythology... at least for a time.

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

Everyone may not go and buy a ticket to watch a movie, but everyone has a television at home. It definitely has a huge reach and a huge connect with the audience.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

For dramas, I love 'Downton Abbey.' I'm a sucker for the BBC.

I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

Even with my family, I feel sort of 'other.' I'm the only one of my siblings who wasn't born in Jamaica. For a long time, I didn't feel very connected to Jamaican culture, but because I was raised so heavily with that cultural influence, I realized that my inner monologue is a Jamaican woman.

Following America's lead, I think British TV is fantastic.

There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you won't be better than the American because you aren't American. You have to do your own stuff.

I don't really watch TV. I've got the box set of 'Downton Abbey,' which I'm enjoying.

I don't know much about British TV. Actually me, I'm looking more at American ones.

Our spiritual home is definitely the U.K., but we have such a breadth of influence, and America's a huge part of that, as I think it is for most bands.

My Britishness waters my music down!