Quotes by Steven Moffat

About Steven Moffat:

Steven William Moffat is a Scottish television writer and producer, known for his work as showrunner, writer and producer of the British television series Doctor Who and Sherlock.
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If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.

Steven Moffat

Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they a re going to be sad l...

Steven Moffat

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.

Steven Moffat

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

Steven Moffat

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.

Steven Moffat

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

Steven Moffat

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

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I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

Steven Moffat

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Steven Moffat

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.

Steven Moffat

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Steven Moffat

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

Steven Moffat

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

Steven Moffat

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. Peo...

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Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

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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.

Steven Moffat

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Steven Moffat

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

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I always tend to favor the newer idea.

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If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

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Author Bio

  • NameSteven Moffat
  • DescriptionScottish television writer and producer
  • BornNovember 18, 1961
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionScreenwriter
  • WorksStrax
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award