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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: 63
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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I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.
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An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.
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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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What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?
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Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
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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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I always tend to favor the newer idea.
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My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
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We're all stories, in the end.
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You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
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I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!
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Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.
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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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[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.
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It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.
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It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.
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I don't want to think that the stories are finite I want to feel that they can go on forever.
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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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