Steven Moffat (Steven William Moffat) Quotes
My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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My interests are not really with television, per se.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
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I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.
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Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
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I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
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My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
