The Cast on World on Fire Season 1

- World on Fire tells extraordinary stories of ordinary people.

- How would I sum it up in three words?

Human, transformation, and scale.

- The best pieces of work make you feel less alone, and, hopefully, they wake you up.

- It's an amazing production.

I read it, and I was kind of engrossed in it.

It reads so beautifully.

It's like a well-written novel.

- So many people of my generation don't quite understand World War II.

It's easy to detach yourself from it, because it seems like such a long time ago, but it really wasn't.

These were our grandparents.

I think what's so wonderful about this series is that it's not trying to be a piece about war, it's a piece about families, and love, and having to survive.

- At least I'm fightin' on the right side.

At least gimme that.

- Oh, everybody thinks that in every war they ever fight.

- When you're doing period anything, it's a lotta cliches.

We think we know how people talked.

We think we know how people behaved and what they wanted.

- You need to get out of Europe.

- I love that you bothered to call, but, please, Paris is safe.

- Very unique individuals in the war, how it effects all their lives in all these different countries.

- What I love about this series is that it's premised on the idea that human nature is essentially unchanged.

Let's perform this, and write this, film this in a way that tries to evoke the emotion of what those times felt like.

- All we can each do is our very best at our job, and hopefully when all that comes together it affects people.

- It's a lovely thing about this that there's a lot of young energy and there's a lot of very experienced energy, as well.

The two go really nicely hand in hand.

Look at the state of this.

- The Nazis are so close to the border, they shot at me.

- Well, you do rub people up the wrong way.

- What we can do is try and find a way to make this feel contemporary, so that the problems and the danger that was going on back then can feel very relevant.

- But, I find it so universal.

It's about love, about freedom, about wanting to be free when you can't.

- You need to leave.

- Where would I be running to?

This is my home.

- For people that might not think to be interested in a World War II drama, they will certainly be interested in ordinary people that they can relate to in all different ways, cause I think there is something for everyone.