Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat
Steven William Moffat, OBEis a Scottish television writer and producer, known for his work as showrunner, writer and producer of the British television series Doctor Who and Sherlock...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 November 1961
cinema television boring
Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
doctors looks blink
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.
doctors rose sound
Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!
party mets knows
Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!
funny-things perfect stories
It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.
boss waste wasting-time
You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
believe writing men
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.
doctors special noses
The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers. Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so...? The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?
moments exciting ifs
If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.
witty mean writing
Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
done ghost rollercoaster
Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.
mind tiny looks
Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.
enemy suspense comedy
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.
aids british duty
As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.