Words matter. These are the best Alice Lowe Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One thing about television in Britain is that they’re so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.
We pitched ‘Sightseers’ as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like ‘Dexter’ came out, ‘Breaking Bad’… There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them.
I think ‘Sightseers’ was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.
The first time you go on holiday is the test of a relationship, when you really find out if you’re compatible or not. You find out what’s annoying about that person, and whether or not you’re willing to put up with that because you love them and you don’t want to be alone.
Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn’t give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.
For years, I didn’t give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.
If you’re funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.
I think it’s much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that’s the most important relationship in their lives.
I have to be careful, as I don’t want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn’t like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you’d be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.
There are some things that as an actor scare you, and if you can capture that fear on screen, it will be interesting.
I don’t have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.
I don’t understand why people don’t use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that’s why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances.
I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don’t really exist in cinema now. The only person who’s really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.
I think when a couple stays together, it’s because of compromises they’ve both made.
