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" I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well. "
Steven Moffat
Hated
Become
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" 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. "
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" Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great. "
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" If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office. "
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" If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment. "
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" 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. "
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" Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television. "
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" I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone. "
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" 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. "
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" Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line. "
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" 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. "
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Comedy
Enemy
" Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. "
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" Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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You
Experience
" 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. "
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" To me, a 'brand' sounds evil. "
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Sounds
" I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch. "
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" 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. "
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" My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television. "
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