Steven Moffat Quotes

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.

Steven Moffat

• People
• Writing
• Script

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Steven Moffat

• Write
• Research
• Happen

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

Steven Moffat

• Forever
• Stories
• Finite

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Steven Moffat

• Television
• Boring
• Cinema

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

Steven Moffat

• Failure
• Difference
• Hit

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

• Writing
• Relationship
• Admire

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

• Writing
• Adults
• Swearing

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

Steven Moffat

• Story
• Writer
• Jokes

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Steven Moffat

• Television
• Making
• Priorities

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

Steven Moffat

• Like
• Moment
• Expect