Steven Moffat Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.”

“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.”

“Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.”

“I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.”

“Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.”

“I always tend to favor the newer idea.”

“If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.”

“If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.”

“Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.”