Jivelle Callender Quotes

In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic. ~ Colin Callender

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall. ~ Colin Callender

But, just because we loved each other, doesn't mean we were meant to be together.
And just because you loved one, doesn't mean you can't love another. ~ Kacen Callender

I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way. ~ Colin Callender

I'm realizing it doesn't really matter if we have a happy ending or not. We're happy right now. That's the important part, right? ~ Kacen Callender

My principal focus is finding great dramas. ~ Colin Callender

When the lights go off in a movie theatre, everyone becomes this one entity: the audience watching the film. And most films aim to get the same emotions out of people. The same reactions. To laugh or be scared or cry or be inspired. The audience goes in as individuals and comes out as people who've all experienced the same thing, are all feeling the same way. ~ Kacen Callender

Maybe the ending isn't even really the point. Just as long as there was a happy somewhere along the way. ~ Kacen Callender

I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play." ~ Colin Callender

I didn't even know so much water could be inside a person- like he was hiding an entire ocean beneath his skin. ~ Kacen Callender

I'm sick and tired of looking around at everyone else falling in love, and telling myself that I don't deserve it, too. ~ Kacen Callender

I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people in the film business working in television, obviously something that we were very influential in starting and doing at HBO. And I think that that's the focus of where I see the company moving forward, continuing to explore that intersection of all that talent. ~ Colin Callender

It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have. ~ Kacen Callender

I've had a long association with the theater over the years but I had never produced a play and it was something that I'd always wanted to do.The movies moved away from dramas, and I think that I'm very excited by the opportunity to take smart writing that takes risks and see it on stage. It's exciting to see that engagement between the audience and the playwright. ~ Colin Callender

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ~ Karl Rove

One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based in London. It's not quite the same as in the States where if the playwright here wants a successful TV or film career, they're whisked away by Hollywood. ~ Colin Callender

You don't need to die for each other to make this exciting. Just the fact that you're here, together--that's epic enough. ~ Kacen Callender

If you feel the need to do it - to write, or paint, or take photos or anything - then that's what you have to do. That's the one most important thing you can do. Because if you don't, then there isn't any point to anything, right? You've got to do it. You've got to keep writing. ~ Kacen Callender

I'm not flaunting anything. I'm just existing. This is me. I can't hide myself. I can't disappear. And even if I could, I don't fucking want to. I have the same right to be here. I have the same right to exist. ~ Kacen Callender

I think that's so particularly exciting about this moment in time is all the new platforms that are now existing, the Netflixes and the Hulus and Amazons and so and so forth; I mean they are really doing what pay TV was doing twenty years ago. So a show like Dancing On The Edge gets to have a digital life after it's playing on Starz. I think what's exciting is how these new platforms are providing more opportunities both for first-run programming on the one hand but also for second plays for shows that have appeared first either on traditional broadcast or on cable. ~ Colin Callender

At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and obviously is happening here is that there's a convergence of talent kind of moving between the different disciplines and I find that very exciting. ~ Colin Callender