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
writing attention stories
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
people judging enough
I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.
two film company
I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
believe people flying
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
haunting consideration
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
fun writing together
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
land names four
You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.
writing fiction saws
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.