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All Quotes by author - Nigel Kneale
" All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. "
You
Stories
Truth
" Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is. "
Like
Big Brother
Silly
" I'd never seen any television before I started. "
Television
Before
Never
" I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either. "
People
Work
Enough
" I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories. "
Own
Television
Stories
" I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan. "
Television
Fan
Keen
" I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. "
Never
Writing
Science
" I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. "
Mid
Down
Companies
" I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. "
Viewer
Wanted
Write
" Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium. "
Television
Kind
Camera
" People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom. "
Flying
Bottom
Who
" Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me. "
Haunting
Something
Worth
" The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it. "
People
Genius
Direction
" The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. "
Together
Fun
Inside
" You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five. "
Better
Hollywood
Money
" You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite. "
Me
Inside
You
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