I think an under-recognized fact is that TV has changed because the screens have, we now have these massive screen in our… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I've been writing so much. And what happens with TV is that they split [Taboo] into two blocks, so you get a… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
No money has ever been spent on 'Peaky Blinders' in terms of publicity, there's no massive campaign - because it's the BBC… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The plan is that there would be three seasons [in Taboo], and, as with Peaky Blinders, I have had a destination in… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
There's something about the evolution of television where it evolved from to the things that we're now watching and loving. It evolved… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Getting 'Millionaire' right was as hard as writing 'Dirty Pretty Things.' Harder. In the pilots, contestants kept wanting to take the money;… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick.… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I'm very, very excited because I'm just completing Episode 6 of Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders], which again I think is the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
TV is a writer's medium, the writer is in charge effectively. So what you write is what gets shot, so in that… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
A creative person can suddenly realize it's not 90 minutes. They haven't got to do three acts, they haven't got to do… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
There's a convention in English stuff that if something is more than 100 years old, people have to say 'do not' instead of 'don't.… — Steven Knight Copy Share
There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's… — Steven Knight Copy Share
It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you… — Steven Knight Copy Share
There's no writers room, or any other writer involved. I write everything from beginning to end. Maybe it's just me not being able to… — Steven Knight Copy Share
I've realized that the only thing I'm interested in is the performance. If the performance is right, then I'm happy. You offer up the… — Steven Knight Copy Share
“It seems to me, that if there is a bad taste in your mouth, you spit it out. You don't constantly swallow it back.” — Steven Knight Copy Share
With FX in particular, they've been fantastic and were really hands off. I mean, it helps that you've got Ridley Scott on your side. — Steven Knight Copy Share
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… — Steven Knight Copy Share
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… — Steven Knight Copy Share
I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late Leonard Cohen… — Steven Knight Copy Share
I think the best research is people you meet and things that they say, rather than second hand accounts of something. I think when… — Steven Knight Copy Share
Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams. — Steven Knight Copy Share
Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and… — Steven Knight Copy Share
There's a grown-upness about television now that wasn't there before. You do know you're doing stuff for adults who can tell the difference between… — Steven Knight Copy Share
![“I've been writing so much. And what happens with TV is that they split [Taboo] into two blocks, so you get a director that does four and another director that does another four. You commit yourself to seven days a week, for 12 or 13 hour days for a long time. I couldn't really do that.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f7f/steven-knight-2205_block_i-ve-been-writing-so-much-and-what-happe_2591442.jpg)
![“The plan is that there would be three seasons [in Taboo], and, as with Peaky Blinders, I have had a destination in mind from the beginning, because I think it helps as a writer. The destination in mind is that James Keziah Delaney sets foot on Nootka Sound. But that's a long way off.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e11/steven-knight-2205_blinders_the-plan-is-that-there-would-be-three-se_1450016.jpg)
![“I'm very, very excited because I'm just completing Episode 6 of Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders], which again I think is the best yet. And I'm loving it and it's not like work, it's not like a labor, I love doing it, and the boys are coming back and they're loving the scripts.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c81/steven-knight-2205_blinders_i-m-very-very-excited-because-i-m-just-c_3164084.jpg)
