Steven Knight Quotes

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• I like to create a character where you believe, deep down, that they don't really care if they live or die. That's very liberating for the character because, if the character is prepared to die, then they can do anything. It's impossible to stop them.

  Steven Knight

  Believe, Character, Care

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why can't I do that?" Or you watch a film and it's not good, and you think, "Why am I doing this?" So either way, it feels like being at work.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Two, Watches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

  Steven Knight

  Attachment, Made, Screenplays

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there.

  Steven Knight

  People, Snow, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The plan is that there would be three seasons [in Taboo], and, as with Peaky Blinders, I have had a destination in mind from the beginning, because I think it helps as a writer. The destination in mind is that James Keziah Delaney sets foot on Nootka Sound. But that's a long way off.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Feet, Long

  Source: deadline.com

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• True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

  Steven Knight

  Stories, Odd, Unlikely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You work, especially in the movie business more than in TV, but you have an environment where people feel obliged to have an input because that's what they do, and I think sometimes it can clutter things up and make things more problematic.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, People, Input

  Source: deadline.com

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• Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.

  Steven Knight

  Sometimes, Easier, Process

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now.

  Steven Knight

  People, Proud, Hometown

  Source: collider.com

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• I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.

  Steven Knight

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.

  Steven Knight

  Writing, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In other words, when you have someone [like Ridley Scott] with that authority, then you tend to be left alone. But they were good and they're really good people, and I'm a big champion of the BBC and I think that like minds find each other and I think that FX and BBC is a perfect match.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  Source: deadline.com

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• I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].

  Steven Knight

  Screenplays, Happens, Originals

  Source: collider.com

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• The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

  Steven Knight

  Dog, Office, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• I've realized that the only thing I'm interested in is the performance. If the performance is right, then I'm happy. You offer up the dialogue and then the performance comes around.

  Steven Knight

  Dialogue, Performances, Offers

  Source: collider.com

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• Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.

  Steven Knight

  Space, Discipline, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• I spoke to Tom's [Hardy] manager and said, "While we're talking about Taboo, do you mind if I also mention this film project that I've got, which is called Locke, and I need Tom to play the lead." And we spoke about both in that meeting and in the end the deal was that I would do Taboo if he did Locke and vice versa.

  Steven Knight

  Talking, Play, Mind

  Source: deadline.com

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• Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.

  Steven Knight

  Cutting, Should Have, Gone

  Source: collider.com

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• I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

  Steven Knight

  Stories, Inspired, Thrillers

  Source: collider.com

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• I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no one would dare create. They're too mad.

  Steven Knight

  Character, People, Mad

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that it's not a bad thing to not be too versed in the vocabulary of cinema, because you start to think that certain things are allowed and not allowed.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Cinema

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

  Steven Knight

  Eight, Giving, Hours

  Source: deadline.com

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• [The Girl in the Spider's Web] can't be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so it is different, in that sense. It's really taking a very strong central character and thinking, how do you execute this? It's quite different.

  Steven Knight

  Girl, Strong, Couple

  Source: collider.com

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• I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.

  Steven Knight

  Book, Heart, Knees

  Source: collider.com

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• [Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

  Steven Knight

  Children, Native American, Age

  Source: collider.com

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