Latest Steven Moffat Quotes from Interviews

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• Peter Capaldi, will always be Doctor Who. You retain the title forever. Ask your predecessors, they all think they're the real one. I've had Sunday lunch with Peter Davidson and David Tennant and they're eyeing each other like, 'It's me!

  Steven Moffat

  Real, Sunday, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• 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.

  Steven Moffat

  Twins, Lear

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• I wouldn't mind removing all the mistakes I have made. That would be exhausting and take forever. Honestly, it's one of the spells of my life that has been the most perfect. Not because I did the job perfectly, because of course I did it very imperfectly, but because I enjoyed it so much. What would I change? I complain a lot. I whinge, I more or less communicate in levels of complaint so I wish sometimes I didn't just spend all my time saying, 'I'm working so hard, what do I get in return for this?'.

  Steven Moffat

  Mistake, Perfect, Forever

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• Sherlock Holmes becomes more human and more adept at fitting in with a lot of people, but he remains separate from the human race because he finds that a better place to observe that from. He stays on the mountain top because there, he can see clearly.

  Steven Moffat

  Race, People, Mountain

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Steven Moffat

  Wise, People, Mountain

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Steven Moffat

  Hate, Favors, Ordinary

  Source: collider.com

• Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.

  Steven Moffat

  Past, Time Travel

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Steven Moffat

  Beautiful, Mean, Acting

  Source: collider.com

• Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.

  Steven Moffat

  Challenges, Looks, Tvs

  Source: collider.com