What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
