Steven Moffat Quotes - Page 4

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• River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

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  Song, Doctors, Names

  "Doctor Who / The Big Bang". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

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  Party, Mets, Know How

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

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• The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.

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  Doctors, Looks, Blink

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• The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia: You're soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.

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  Fall, Swimming, Doctors

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• Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.

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  Doe, Amy, Stuff

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• I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.

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  Knows, I Can

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• Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful! The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares! Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me!

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  Doctors, Worry, Bed

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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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• The Doctor...is embarrassingly human for an alien.

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  Doctors, Aliens, Humans

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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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• 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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• 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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  Adventure, Action, Peter

  "Filming begins on Doctor Who Series 9". www.bbc.co.uk. January 14, 2015.

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

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  Stupid, Thinking, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

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  Cinema, Television, Boring

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• The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.

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  Doctors, Giving, Crayon

  "Doctor Who / A Christmas Carol". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross, in which case... always use force! Amy: Shall I run and get the manual? The Doctor: I threw it in a supernova. Amy: You threw the manual in a supernova? Why? The Doctor: Because I disagreed with it! Now stop talking to me when I'm cross!

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  Running, Pain, Doctors

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