Steven Moffat Quotes - Page 3

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• We're thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It's not possible to say too much about who or what she's playing, but she is going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways. This time he might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him exactly the right sort of hell.

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  Doctors, Giving, Challenges

  "Doctor Who Season 9 Trailer Has Daleks, Zygons & Maisie Williams" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

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  Doctors, Rockets, Physics

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• There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap. And what would that be sir? Me

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  Smart, Tomorrow, Traps

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• I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

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  Writing, Watches, Stuff

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• I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

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  Writing, Self, Laughing

  "The new Doctor Who: Steven Moffat and Matt Smith". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2010.

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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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  Sexy, Cheating, Song

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• Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

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  Fighting, Battle, Invasion

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". "Doctor Who/ Day of the Moon", April 2011.

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• Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are in stories. But many years later, when I met the real Sarah Jane - Lis Sladen herself - she was exactly as any child ever have wanted her to be. Kind and gentle and clever; and a ferociously talented actress, of course, but in that perfectly English unassuming way.

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  Children, Clever, Real

  "Elisabeth Sladen, 'Doctor Who''s Sarah Jane, Dies at 63" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. April 19, 2011.

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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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  Play, Different, Fiction

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

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  Evil, Sound, Brands

  "Steven Moffat: The man with a monster of a job". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Demons run when a good man goes to war.

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  Running, War, Men

  "Doctor Who". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

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  Office, Monsters, Toys

  "Steven Moffat: The man with a monster of a job". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.

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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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  Thinking, Stories, Comedy

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• The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

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  Writing, People, Envelopes

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• My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

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  Priorities, Television, Should

  "The new Doctor Who: Steven Moffat and Matt Smith". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2010.

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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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  Writing, Research, Minimum

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• You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

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  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.

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  Aids, British, Duty

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• When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.

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  Believe, Writing, Men

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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.

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  Enemy, Suspense, Comedy

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• People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

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  Art, Writing, People

  "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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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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  May, Stuff, Serious

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• Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.

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  Life, Add, Daleks

  "Doctor Who (Asylum of the Daleks)". TV Series, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Thinking, Impossible Things, Doors

  "Doctor Who: Children in Need Special". TV Series, November 18, 2005.

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• The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

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  Doctors, Bigger, Clara

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