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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.
Steven Moffat
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Steven Moffat
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 18
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We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We’ve practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan … we’re probably more excited that we’ve ever been about Sherlock.
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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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Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!
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Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
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River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.
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Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again!
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You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
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All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.
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When man invented fire, he didn't say, Hey, let's cook. He said, Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.
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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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Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.
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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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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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Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
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If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.
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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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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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