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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
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Television Producer
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Steven William Moffat
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You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.
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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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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 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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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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It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.
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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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You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
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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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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 like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the Queen should be played by a man!
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My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
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When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.
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Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
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If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.
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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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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 was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.
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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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