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Steven Knight Quotes
Steven Knight Quotes
Steven Knight
English
Director
Born:
1959
About
Good
People
Think
Writing
You
I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with its own rules, or if you're going to look at working class people, you have to do that in a particular 'Isn't it a shame, aren't they oppressed' way, or it's treated comically.
Steven Knight
You
Class
People
Past
Own
Think
Drama
I Think
Way
Rules
Shame
Tendency
Particular
Look
Period
Oppressed
Upper
Going
Middle
Middle Class
Either
Working
Working-Class
England
Treated
With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but keep your eye on the ticking clock of the series.
Steven Knight
Character
You
Eye
TV
Determined
Structure
Ticking
Without
Clock
Episode
Your
Incident
Series
Keep
Consequence
I never map things out in advance. It would be better if I did and more economical in terms of time, but I've found that if you work out a plot line from beginning to end, at the beginning it becomes very rational.
Steven Knight
Work
Time
You
Better
Beginning
Out
Plot
Would
Would-Be
More
Rational
Never
Advance
Economical
Terms
Becomes
Line
End
Very
Did
Work Out
Map
Found
Things
Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'
Steven Knight
Say
Taboo
About
Expect
Expect The Unexpected
Unexpected
To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or screenplay.
Steven Knight
Game
Demanding
Write
Intellectually
Get
Screenplay
Production
Game Show
Show
Novel
Challenging
Once upon a time there was a physicality to the business of investigating a serious crime. There were objects, pieces of paper, even good old-fashioned fingerprints. Today it's different. Because all of us are routinely and voluntarily giving the intimate details of our lives to all kinds of people whether we realize it or not.
Steven Knight
Today
Time
Good
Business
People
Crime
Giving
Our
Once
Intimate
Our Lives
Paper
Details
Kinds
Fingerprints
Objects
Physicality
Investigating
Voluntarily
Pieces
Because
Were
Different
Whether
Realize
Us
Old-Fashioned
Even
Serious
Lives
I write about what worries me and, hopefully, things worry me a little bit earlier than they do some other people, purely because I am a writer and it is my job to go out there and be worried by things.
Steven Knight
Me
People
I Am
Job
Other
Worried
Worries
Worry
Bit
Out
Hopefully
I Write
Some
Purely
About
Write
Writer
Because
Am
Go
Than
Little
Little Bit
Things
Earlier
There's nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.
Steven Knight
Nothing
Adapting
Ways
Classic
Wrong
Stuff
I never set out to write a script that is 'topical.'
Steven Knight
Topical
Out
Write
Never
Script
Set
I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them in terms of other films - rather than as something that happened to them in their life. And I'm really keen to get back to film as a reference to real things, not necessarily to other films.
Steven Knight
Life
You
World
Films
Other
Back
Find
About
Someone
Something
Rather
Talk
Terms
Real
Reference
Very
Than
Get
Often
Happened
Them
Really
Keen
Film
Things
Necessarily
Film World
I think an under-recognized fact is that TV has changed because the screens have, we now have these massive screen in our homes... so it's worth making your show look good.
Steven Knight
Good
Worth
Think
Changed
Our
I Think
TV
Fact
Look
Massive
Because
Making
Screen
Screens
Your
Show
Now
Homes
I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now on you have to paint paintings that are 40% blue. That's the film industry at its most blunt, which is why it's constantly bats and spiders and superheroes.
Steven Knight
Saying
You
Painting
Think
Everyone
I Think
Bats
Bit
Spiders
Constantly
Superheroes
Like
Most
Industry
Does
Blue
Blunt
Which
Loves
Paint
Painter
Paintings
Film
Now
Why
Film Industry
The film business seems to attract rules more than any other business. I don't know why it does. I think it's because there's so much money at stake.
Steven Knight
Business
Money
Think
Other
I Think
Rules
Seems
More
Know
Attract
Because
Does
Than
Any
So Much Money
Stake
Much
Film
Why
Film Business
What I like about 'Taboo' just in general, even in writing it, you are not certain what the motives are sometimes because these characters are so odd that you let them speak for themselves and you're never quite sure where it's headed.
Steven Knight
You
Writing
Speak
Sometimes
Characters
Taboo
About
General
Never
Headed
Like
Sure
Because
Odd
Motives
Quite
Just
Where
Them
Themselves
Certain
Even
Locke' was sort of myself trying to find out if you could give yourself the maximum number of obstacles to make enough drama and seeing if you could do it.
Steven Knight
Myself
You
Yourself
Enough
Drama
Locke
Out
Find
Seeing
Give
Could
Obstacles
Make
Sort
Trying
Maximum
Number
Whenever I went to L.A. the first thing people said in the meeting, no matter what it was about, was how much they loved 'Peakys.' So Hollywood was really going for it which is always a good start. Also Snoop Dogg is a big fan.
Steven Knight
Good
People
Matter
First
Big
Meeting
About
Also
First Thing
Said
Always
How
How Much
Big Fan
Snoop Dogg
Going
The First Thing
Whenever
Fan
Loved
Which
Hollywood
Much
Really
Thing
Start
Yeah, I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules.
Steven Knight
People
Think
I Think
Rules
Drawn
Characters
Yeah
Break
Spaghetti Junction is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen at night.
Steven Knight
Beautiful
You
Most Beautiful
Seen
Most
Beautiful Thing
Most Beautiful Thing
Junction
Spaghetti
Ever
Thing
Night
I want to be influenced by the world not TV or film.
Steven Knight
World
TV
Influenced
Want
Film
Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are howls of outrage.
Steven Knight
People
Outrage
Genre
Industry
Because
Expecting
Getting
Certain
Film
Now
Film Industry
Part of the reason for doing 'Peaky Blinders,' apart from the fact that it was a personal story and I've always wanted to do it, was what was great I felt is that Birmingham is probably the least fashionable city in Britain.
Steven Knight
Great
Birmingham
City
Fact
Part
Blinders
Felt
Always
Least
Doing
Personal
Wanted
Story
Personal Story
Apart
Reason
Fashionable
Britain
Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.
Steven Knight
History
Birmingham
Cotton
Steel
Iron
Manchester
Wool
It's really important to me that 'Peaky Blinders' went down so well in Birmingham. Apparently the audience share in the West Midlands was double that of any other region.
Steven Knight
Me
Important
Down
Other
Birmingham
Share
Well
Blinders
Audience
West
Any
Region
Double
Really
Apparently
I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.
Steven Knight
World
Penny
Every
Think
Approach
Everything
I Think
East
Would
India
Counted
Very
Modern
Represents
Where
Company
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