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Chris Chibnall
Chris Chibnall
English Writer
Born: 1970
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I love 'Doctor Who' as a big, popular, mainstream, accessible show. Chris Chibnall
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It's a 'Doctor Who' budget. A BBC budget, although a very good one. But you know you can't do dinosaurs endlessly for 45 minutes, so there has to be a big ‘other' story going on. Chris Chibnall
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I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere. Chris Chibnall
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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. Chris Chibnall
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Drama is not a literal portrayal of events. It's a depiction, it's impressionistic. Chris Chibnall
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I think 'Doctor Who' is the greatest idea television has ever had, and our job is to convince the rest of the world. Chris Chibnall
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Broadchurch' has been a life-changing experience for me, but all good stories come to an end. Chris Chibnall
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As a programme-maker you've got a responsibility to examine your choices and how they play in the wider world. Chris Chibnall
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Broadchurch' is shot through with the fear of being a parent: what's the most horrific loss you can imagine and how could you go on living afterwards? Chris Chibnall
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I've come from theatre and you have different productions of a text in theatre. It's not unusual. Chris Chibnall
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Doctor Who' is such a broad show. It's got the whole universe to explore. Chris Chibnall
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Honestly, I could talk to you for seven hours and not run out of great things to say about David Tennant. Chris Chibnall
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At every point in 'Broadchurch' you're continually told and pulled back into the emotional cost. Chris Chibnall
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The north-west coast of America is that mixture of beauty and savagery, which I felt was very similar to the Dorset coast. Chris Chibnall
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I think you can tell different types of stories within a 'Doctor Who' two-parter. Chris Chibnall
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If we lose the BBC it would be a disaster for the entire country. I genuinely believe that. Chris Chibnall
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Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands. Chris Chibnall
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There is very much a sense of different versions of storytelling within our 'Camelot' - who tells those stories, who creates them, who shifts them. Chris Chibnall
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One of your jobs as a writer is to cut out the noise. All you have is your instincts and your process. Chris Chibnall
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Having made other shows, the thing with 'Doctor Who' is that you're doing everything, all at once. Chris Chibnall
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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? Chris Chibnall
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You should always think about the mainstream audience first and foremost, because frankly they are the people who are going to get the show recommissioned. There are not enough genre fans to support shows. Chris Chibnall
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But I think whenever you're bringing in a new Doctor, you have to set it up in a really great way because it's an entry point for a whole audience. Because the audience of 'Doctor Who' is everyone from eight to 108, life is continually creating new viewers. Chris Chibnall
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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. Chris Chibnall
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Some scenes take days and weeks, and some scenes take an hour. Chris Chibnall
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The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time. Chris Chibnall
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