Andy Wilman > Quotes

“A. A. Gill. He once said that good coffee is not about the quality of the beans, or the water, or the barista. Good coffee, he wrote, is all about context: where you drink it, who with, under what circumstances”
― Andy Wilman, Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure: Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem

“took inspiration from the most famous office manager in Britain: David Brent. Obviously he was insufferable in so many ways, but I also believe he got some things right. He intrinsically knew, for example, that it’s a slightly weird world where capitalism has managed to arrange things so that we spend the best hours of the day not with our friends and loved ones, but with colleagues at work. And if that has to be the case, then give the place a bit of theatre”
― Andy Wilman, Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure: Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem

“Honestly, mate, I can talk to Jezzer about Chelsea, I can talk to us lot about music, we all talk about anything. I’m on these other shoots and I’m with the assistants and they’re all reading Lens Monthly and I just sit there thinking: “Will someone just please call me a ginger cunt?”’ I mean, naturally, we obliged.”
― Andy Wilman, Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure: Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem

“Then the Guinness Book of Records got in touch and told us we were going to be in their next edition: Most Watched (factual) TV Show in the World”
― Andy Wilman, Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure: Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem