Steven Moffat Quotes

Author Image

Steven Moffat

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 18, 1961

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Steven Moffat

Brainy's the new sexy.

Steven Moffat

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.

Steven Moffat

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Steven Moffat

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Steven Moffat

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

Steven Moffat

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

Steven Moffat

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.

Steven Moffat

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

Steven Moffat

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Steven Moffat

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

Steven Moffat

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

Steven Moffat

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

Steven Moffat

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

Steven Moffat

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.

Steven Moffat

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

Steven Moffat

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.

Steven Moffat

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

Steven Moffat

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

Steven Moffat

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Steven Moffat