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Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
Steven Moffat
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Steven Moffat
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 18
Executive Producer
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Teacher
Television Producer
Television Writer
Paisley
Renfrew
Steven William Moffat
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I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
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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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Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.
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Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
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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 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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It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.
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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 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 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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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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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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Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet!
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Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.
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All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.
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I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.
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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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