Quotes from Chris Chibnall

Some scenes take days and weeks, and some scenes take an hour.

The tradition, particularly in old-school British detective things, is everybody's in the drawing room or the library, and they're all gathered, and the detective walks around and tells them where they were that night, and you see the flashbacks.

It is a fact of broadcasting that you've got to get the big audiences for the channel that you're on.

I think my job is to deliver the best, most cinematic, rich, exciting, surprising and emotional version of 'Camelot.'

I mean, I'm always happy to be compared with Scorsese!

My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives on the weekend, whenever we were driving back on these three-hour drives, he would be playing the musical soundtrack on repeat, on the cassette in our car, to the extent that we begged him never to play it again.

Drama is not a literal portrayal of events. It's a depiction, it's impressionistic.

I think 'Doctor Who' is the greatest idea television has ever had, and our job is to convince the rest of the world.

Growing up as a Brit, Arthur and Merlin and Camelot, and just the idea of it, is embedded in the culture and in your soul, growing up. King Arthur is alongside Robin Hood, as those great British folk tales, myths and icons.

Normally the lightbulb moments only happen after 16-hour days, lots of cups of tea and a bit of weeping.

As if we didn't have enough fabulous actresses, it's a thrill to be joined by Wales's finest, Eve Myles. Having worked together on 'Torchwood,' it's a joy to be able to welcome her to 'Broadchurch.'

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but the journey is never quite what you predict because the characters take on a life on their own.

Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands.

Doctor Who' is such a broad show. It's got the whole universe to explore.

Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That's not a scandal: it's a legitimate dramatic technique.

There's something very interesting about world leaders promising hope and then carrying through on that.

As a programme-maker you've got a responsibility to examine your choices and how they play in the wider world.

In a wider sense, I'm terrified about my kids coming down to breakfast and saying, 'Trump said this and they've voted him president?' How do you explain to your children how to behave as a man in this world?

At every point in 'Broadchurch' you're continually told and pulled back into the emotional cost.

Born And Bred' is pure escapism, and where we film is one of the most beautiful places in the country.

That kind of 'Lord of the Flies' brutality of being 11, it's a tough time. You're trying to figure out who you are, and who your friends are, and what your alliances are, and kids fall out all the time.

The range of 'Doctor Who' is, I would argue, bigger than the range of any other television program or movie franchise.

If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that sense.

If we lose the BBC it would be a disaster for the entire country. I genuinely believe that.