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Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't. Steven Moffat

Say Like Well Permitted Just Anything

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film? Steven Moffat

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

Great Television Exciting Priorities Making Where Which Really Should

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

Myself Jokes Happy Comedy Sense Think Humour Tell Rather Writer Know Without How Lots Than Story

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist. Stevie Jackson

Suits Glasses Guess Wear Indie Am Artist

I'm as Scottish as they come. Stevie Jackson

Come Scottish

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian. Stevie Jackson

Guitar Guitar Player Belle Player

When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music. Stevie Jackson

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As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story. Sylvester McCoy

I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about. Sylvester McCoy

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As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney. Sylvester McCoy

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Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed. Sylvester McCoy

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling! Sylvester McCoy

Love Gypsy Travelling Thing

I do actually like performing to a live audience. I like the response. I do a lot of Doctor Who conventions now, and the reason that I do them is that there is a live audience I can get to directly. Sylvester McCoy

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I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next! Sylvester McCoy

Whatever Never Along Just Really Next Planned Career

I think back to my time in children's television, back in the 1970s, and the amount of innovation that was going on then. Because the mass market wasn't focused on it, so you had a freedom to do amazing things, like 'Vision On,' and 'Tiswas.' Sylvester McCoy

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I've got two sons whom I love to death, and I love them differently. Sylvester McCoy

Love Death Sons Got Them Whom Differently Two

There's still a part of me that believes what was great about 'Doctor Who' in the early days was that you had a superhero who didn't wear his underpants on the outside of his trousers, who used his brain rather than his brawn. Sylvester McCoy

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth. Theresa Breslin

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