Steven Moffat Quotes & Sayings

“Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.”

“I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.”

“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.”

“Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.”

“Brainy's the new sexy.”

“I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.”

“I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.”

“The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.”

“I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.”

“I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.”