8 Lee Child Quotes on Media

Lee Child quotes on media

26. I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

30. I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

31. I worked for the BBC's rival, ITV, the commercial network. What was great about it was that due to regulatory wrinkles, there was a lot of money that had to be spent on programming.

33. I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

34. In America, the fragmentation of the market spurred a chase toward the lowest common denominator and the cheapest programming. We'll never see the likes of Roots or Brideshead again, which is a shame.

36. Obviously I watched the movies and the TV shows, but I guess I wasn't aware how deeply the influence was affecting me.

40. The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

42. There should be an unspoken rule that anything shown before, say, nine o'clock will be fairly inoffensive. After that, anything goes.