Tobias Menzies

Love is a very big word.

The success of 'Rome' was in making the history accessible and giving viewers everyman characters through which they can connect to historical figures. It stops the story from being too remote.

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.