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I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
Steven Moffat
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Steven Moffat
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: November 18
Executive Producer
Science Fiction Writer
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Television Producer
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Steven William Moffat
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Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads of people. He's got a wisdom that he didn't have in the early stage. But he stays on the mountain top, and he will die up there. He's not going to change that.
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I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.
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You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
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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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What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?
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There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands.
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There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap. And what would that be sir? Me
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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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