We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Steven Moffat Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
I always tend to favor the newer idea.
I’m a geek.
My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare’s day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.
I hope I won’t become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don’t really know comic books all that well.
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It’s easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.
I don’t think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I’ll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing – but find an alternative to swearing and you’ve probably got a better line.
Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it – I wouldn’t know how to do jokes without the story.
I absolutely love television, and I don’t mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?
You’ll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
If you don’t expect to like someone and then you do, that’s an incredibly exciting moment.
My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
Well, I’m permitted to say anything I like. I just don’t.
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
To me, a ‘brand’ sounds evil.
When you’re surrounded by friends and exes, there’s a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they’re hilarious.
Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.
