I'm a big Birmingham City supporter and seeing the fans dressed as Peaky Blinders is one of my proudest moments. — 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
Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one. — Steven Knight Drama Copy Share Image
I love the BBC. I love working with the BBC. They leave you alone; they give you zero notes. It's like being… — Steven Knight Alone Copy Share Image
My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
With FX in particular, they've been fantastic and were really hands off. I mean, it helps that you've got Ridley Scott on… — Steven Knight Fantastic Copy Share Image
If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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 think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now… — Steven Knight Blue Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them.… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
There's always a concern over budget with film too but people are more extravagant when they're making a feature. In television everything's… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When you think 'Peaky Blinders,' when it first began it got mixed reviews and people didn't know what to do with it,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more… — Steven Knight Artist Copy Share Image
What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an… — Steven Knight Adventurer Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a physicality to the business of investigating a serious crime. There were objects, pieces of paper,… — Steven Knight Business Copy Share Image
There were three options [in Allied], which were for [Bred Pitt] to shoot [Marion Cotillard], for them to escape, or for her… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The time came where I was able to write an original screenplay [Allied], and it would be read and noticed. I had… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in characters who are closed down, but who open up when they choose to, rather than when they're obliged… — Steven Knight Audience Copy Share Image
Just the idea that someone is married and they've got a kid, and he reports for work one morning and his boss… — Steven Knight Boss Copy Share Image
I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I want to make people see that evil is seductive and that we need to be careful. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams. — Steven Knight Access Copy Share Image
[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about… — Steven Knight Age Copy Share Image
No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made. — Steven Knight Attachment Copy Share Image
From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a… — Steven Knight Fresh snow Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then… — Steven Knight Allied Copy Share Image
I've had more reaction to 'Peaky' than anything. People react really intensely. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Locke' is a different way of making a film as well as being a different sort of film. — Steven Knight Being Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been… — Steven Knight Cinema Copy Share Image
There used to be grandparents who would say that if you were misbehaving the Peaky Blinders would get you, they were the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
![“What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the…” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cca/steven-knight-2205_adventurer_what-happened-was-i-was-invited-to-meet_1817956.jpg)
![“There were three options [in Allied], which were for [Bred Pitt] to shoot [Marion Cotillard], for them to escape, or for her to pull the trigger, which is a heroic act to spare him. When I was thinking about how it would end, a long time ago, I think I tried each of them to see, but two of them…” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6bc/steven-knight-2205_ends_there-were-three-options-in-allied-which_2038523.jpg)
![“The time came where I was able to write an original screenplay [Allied], and it would be read and noticed. I had a meeting with Brad [Pitt], just around the time that he was making World War Z. I basically told him the story and said, "This is what I want to do," and he really responded, so that…” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0e8/steven-knight-2205_able_the-time-came-where-i-was-able-to-write_1110760.jpg)
![“It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/88d/steven-knight-2205_appropriate_it-s-great-that-the-story-allied-is-set_2177500.jpg)
![“I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3ec/steven-knight-2205_happens_i-always-thought-it-would-never-happen-a_932011.jpg)
![“[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fe1/steven-knight-2205_age_woman-walks-ahead-is-from-me-being-a-ver_2701409.jpg)
![“What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e84/steven-knight-2205_allied_what-i-wanted-to-do-in-allied-was-get-tw_811268.jpg)
![“There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bb0/steven-knight-2205_blinders_there-s-more-to-come-series-4-of-peaky-b_930695.jpg)
![“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 was a fan. It struck a chord with various people that I didn't think it would.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/026/steven-knight-2205_blinders_i-ve-spent-three-hours-with-snoop-dogg-t_379922.jpg)
