Steven Knight
Quotes by Steven Knight
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Getting 'Millionaire' right was as hard as writing 'Dirty Pretty Things.' Harder. In the pilots, contestants kept wanting to take the money; we had to find ways - the lifelines - of keeping them in the seat, answering the questions. But there is so much snobbery about popular culture. A game show just isn't valued as much as a novel.
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There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.
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Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'
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Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.
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I never set out to write a script that is 'topical.'
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No money has ever been spent on 'Peaky Blinders' in terms of publicity, there's no massive campaign - because it's the BBC you just get the trailers. But what's happened is people have found it for themselves and I think the loyalty is greater when people find than when they're told to watch something.
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My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters.
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True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there. It always feels good to be dealing with a period of history or a world that no one else has dealt with.
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I do lots of projects in film and TV. You have some that are lucky, and some that are unlucky.
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I will never unravel the mystery of how a script gets into the hands of certain people.
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Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.
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In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.
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