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
art writing people
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.
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.
stupid thinking people
You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
may stuff serious
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.
writing people envelopes
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
writing research minimum
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
moments exciting ifs
If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.
powerful writing thinking
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
stuff looks internet
I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.
evil sound brands
To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.
play different fiction
My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.
differences made
The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
falling-in-love war hero
The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about detection, but in reality, it's about the best of two men who save each other - a lost, washed-up war hero and a man who could end up committing murders instead of solving them. They come together. They become this perfect unit. They become the best friendship ever, and they become heroes. That's what we fall in love with, not Sherlock on his own. No one can love that man on his own, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - the best friends ever.
children clever real
Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are in stories. But many years later, when I met the real Sarah Jane - Lis Sladen herself - she was exactly as any child ever have wanted her to be. Kind and gentle and clever; and a ferociously talented actress, of course, but in that perfectly English unassuming way.