Steven Moffat Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.”

“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.”

“I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.”

“I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.”

“Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.”

“Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.”

“I'm a geek.”

“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.”

“If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.”

“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.”