Innovative Format Quotes

The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

I'm really pleased to share the 'Station to Station' film. It has a very unorthodox structure; it's made up of separate one-minute films. So you watch this piece that is like time moving. Everything is democratised, whether it's a minute of Patti Smith or a single landscape with a drone, it's this amazing modern kaleidoscope.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

'Human Giant' was a kind of lightning in a bottle. A rare opportunity for us to write and create our own sort of thing, with very few restrictions.

'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?

Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.

'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to create a new drama entity. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it became so instantly popular.