Steven Moffat quotes

Steven Moffat is a Scottish television writer and producer, acclaimed for his work on popular series such as "Doctor Who" and "Sherlock." His unique storytelling style and witty dialogue have earned him critical and fan acclaim worldwide. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to television drama. Here are 43 of his quotes:

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

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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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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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Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.

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Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.

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I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

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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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Brainy's the new sexy.

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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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When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end.

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

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Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.

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Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.

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There are a few, of course, who believe that this man somehow survived, and that one day he will return.

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We saw some amazing actresses for this part. But when Karen came through the door, the game was up.

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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.

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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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Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

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I always tend to favor the newer idea.

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

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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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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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