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Steven Moffat
Scottish
Writer
Born:
Nov 18
,
1961
Comedy
Like
People
Think
Writing
You
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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
You
Hilarious
Starts
Those
Out
Participant
Stuff
However
Lot
Surrounded
Friends
May
Experiences
Crawling
Whole
Traumatic
Serious
If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.
Steven Moffat
You
Incredibly
Someone
Exciting
Like
Expect
Then
Moment
To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.
Steven Moffat
Me
Evil
Sounds
Brand
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
Life
Today
Day
You
Experience
Every Day
Problem
Impossible
Different Kinds
Every
Once
Kinds
See
Staying
Shakespeare
More
Audience
Five
Than
Expected
Different
Fiction
Your
Twice
Ever
Play
Four
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
Women
Statement
Possibly
Most
Because
Mothers
Reducing
Heard
Now
I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
Steven Moffat
Think
Finite
Feel
Go
Forever
Want
Stories
I always tend to favor the newer idea.
Steven Moffat
Favor
Tend
Idea
Always
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
Art
Great
Relationship
People
Writing
Great Art
Admire
Direction
Sort
Just
Really
Production
I'm a geek.
Steven Moffat
Geek
Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
Steven Moffat
Cinema
Slow
Television
Boring
Compared
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
Steven Moffat
News
Intelligence
Assuming
Bad
See
About
Bad News
Wrong
Audience
Rewarded
Being
Your
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
Love
People
Money
Power
Earth
Television
Would
Having
More
More Power
Absolutely
Industry
Vulgar
Doing
Get
Movie
Movie Industry
Explain
Mean
Keep
Film
Why
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
Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
Steven Moffat
Saying
You
Nothing
Drama
Rule
Would
Would-Be
Boring
Because
Very
Happen
Then
Certain
Certain Things
Ever
Things
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
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
Steven Moffat
Me
Research
Minimum
About
Write
Writers
Like
Most
Involves
Happened
Amount
If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
Steven Moffat
You
Experience
Men
Worried
Pretty
Take
Most
Wives
Frightened
Disgusted
Aside
Pregnant
Whole
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