Steven Knight Quotes - Page 3

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• When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school and you do something and you get praised for it, you think, "Oh, right, well I'll do that." From then on, I always thought I'd be a writer. I thought novels at first, and then I sort of naturally drifted into TV.

  Steven Knight

  School, Thinking, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, London, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• The story [of Allied ] itself is the story I wrote, and that's what's great about Bob [Zemeckis ]. You have meetings, but it's meetings for clarity, not to change what they're saying or doing. He takes what's on the page and executes it so brilliantly.

  Steven Knight

  Pages, Stories, Bob

  Source: collider.com

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• There [in Allied] was depicting London in the war, as well, and doing that in a way where you see something that you don't normally see, which is how hedonistic it was. In reality, that's what was going on. But, all of it worked.

  Steven Knight

  War, Reality, London

  Source: collider.com

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• I visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was in West London, in an old Gillette factory. You'd go into the factory through the security, and then there were a lot of camels and goats. Most sets are really dull, but this was fantastic.

  Steven Knight

  London, West, Camels

  Source: collider.com

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• 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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• It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.

  Steven Knight

  Stories, Feels, Appropriate

  Source: collider.com

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• [2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  Steven Knight

  War, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.

  Steven Knight

  Years, Ideas, Secret

  Source: deadline.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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• East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.

  Steven Knight

  Christian, Civilization, India

  Source: deadline.com

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• [Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to only make a comment when a comment needs to be made.

  Steven Knight

  Needs, Made, Precious Things

  Source: deadline.com

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• With FX in particular, they've been fantastic and were really hands off. I mean, it helps that you've got Ridley Scott on your side.

  Steven Knight

  Mean, Hands, Your Side

  Source: deadline.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.

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  Thinking, People, Perfect

  Source: deadline.com

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• I find the best way to make things real is to just put two characters into a space and let them talk to each other in the way that they would talk to each other, and then see what they would say. I know it sounds weird, but that leads the plot and takes you in another direction.

  Steven Knight

  Real, Character, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been writing so much. And what happens with TV is that they split [Taboo] into two blocks, so you get a director that does four and another director that does another four. You commit yourself to seven days a week, for 12 or 13 hour days for a long time. I couldn't really do that.

  Steven Knight

  Block, Writing, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in that you outline the story that you think should be told, and then you write it.

  Steven Knight

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Snoop [Dog] said [Peaky Blinders] reminded him of how he got involved with gang culture. It's always fantastically flattering when I see people dress like that and take on the look.

  Steven Knight

  Dog, People, Dresses

  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.

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  Space, Discipline, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late Leonard Cohen was a fan. It struck a chord with various people that I didn't think it would.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Talking, People

  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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• I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a new place.

  Steven Knight

  Opportunity, Thinking, Snow

  Source: deadline.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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