Phyllida Lloyd Quotes

I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was live was when somebody leant on a button and plunged the whole studio into blackout.

Phyllida Lloyd

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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.

Valerie Cruz
- Time
- Good
- Game
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Victor Hugo
- Live
- Die
- Nothing
You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

Yani Tseng
- Time
- Important
- Rest
I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

Taylor Sheridan
- Up
- Character
- Book
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

Katha Pollitt
- Life
- Time
- Good
Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

Rand Paul
- People
- Time
- Single