Steven Knight Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like, "This is how a film should be made." It was beautiful.

  Steven Knight

  Beautiful, London, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

• [The film Woman Walks Ahead] is from a long time ago. I wrote that ages ago. It looks gorgeous and Jessica [Chastain] is so good that I've got high hopes.

  Steven Knight

  Long, Age, Looks

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

• Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick. It's like, "Oh, my god, how are you going to do that in 90 minutes, as opposed to eight hours?! I've got so little time to do this!" It becomes an art form, in itself. Doing both helps you do each one.

  Steven Knight

  Art, Eight, Years

  Source: collider.com

• Just the idea that someone is married and they've got a kid, and he reports for work one morning and his boss says, "You're wife is a spy. Shoot her." In the real story, he just went back and did it, which would have been a short film. Therefore, I had to spend some time exploring what you would do.

  Steven Knight

  Morning, Real, Kids

  Source: collider.com

• There's something about the evolution of television where it evolved from to the things that we're now watching and loving. It evolved from film writers, film actors, and I think gradually people are easing themselves into the amount of time they have.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Source: deadline.com

• [Allied] meant to be a film that's a bit different. It's roots are in the '40s and '50s, and that sort of filmmaking style.

  Steven Knight

  Roots, Style, Different

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

• There [in Allied] were things that were written that were cut, and things that were shot that were cut, but if the film works, they are erased from memory.

  Steven Knight

  Memories, Cutting, Film

  Source: collider.com

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