I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.
John RidleyI don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.
John RidleyWe all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.
John RidleyWhen I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.
John Ridley