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
mean writing alternatives
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
writing stuff watches
I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch,
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.
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.
powerful writing thinking
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
witty mean writing
Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
writing self people
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. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.
Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.
country apology men
Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.
dog character people
You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way it is and the way it ought to be. But both are clearly defined as deranged – it’s love among the mad. He’s a psycopath, so is she. She’s prepared to throw him to the dogs until he works out the code, he’s prepared to let her nearly get executed. They’re not really going to buy a house and a Volvo together. I’m not saying this is how people should date!
challenges looks tvs
Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.
beautiful mean acting
You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.