My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television. Steven Moffat Read Quote
I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it’s the hardest. It’s the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There’s a big button marked ‘fail,’ and that’s when nobody laughs. Steven Moffat Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. Steven Moffat Read Quote
When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women. Steven Moffat Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it’s the enemy of comedy. It’s the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up. Steven Moffat Read Quote
