Nigel Kneale
Nigel Kneale
Thomas Nigel Knealewas a British screenwriter. He wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the British Film Award for Best Screenplay. In 2000, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 April 1922
aiming except recorded recording
Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.
I'd never seen any television before I started.
sort thinks turns viewer
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
haunting consideration
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.