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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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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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Amy: Can I come? Doctor: Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back. Amy: People always say that. Doctor: Am I people?...Do I even look like people?...Trust me, I'm the Doctor.
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Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
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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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Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
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You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.
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It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.
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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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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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It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.
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What is immutable about Sherlock Holmes? He favors reason over emotion, but actually underneath that, there is a lot of emotion going on. You can't suddenly make him ordinary because he would hate that. He's not suddenly going to be somebody else.
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Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.
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Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
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I always tend to favor the newer idea.
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Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. 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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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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You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
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