Steven Moffat

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

— Steven Moffat

“The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.”

— Steven Moffat

“All of time and space, anything that ever happened or ever will. Where do you want to start?”

— Steven Moffat

“Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?”

— Steven Moffat

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

— Steven Moffat

The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

— Steven Moffat

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

“Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.”

— Steven Moffat

There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any…

— Steven Moffat

River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your…

— Steven Moffat

We're thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It's not possible to say too much about who or what…

— Steven Moffat

Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor,…

— Steven Moffat

River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy…

— Steven Moffat

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once…

— Steven Moffat

Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat…

— Steven Moffat

The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers. Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so...? The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. The Doctor:…

— Steven Moffat

“Who takes the Pandorica takes the Universe. But bad news everyone. 'Cause guess who! Hah! Listen, you lot, you're all whizzing about.…

— Steven Moffat

“It's hard to talk about the importance of an imaginary hero. But heroes ARE important: Heroes tell us something about ourselves. History…

— Steven Moffat

“Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here. Amy: Just stop it! Rory: Just think it through, this will work. This…

— Steven Moffat

It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and…

— Steven Moffat

Madge: I don't know why I keep shouting at them. The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how…

— Steven Moffat

“This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising…

— Steven Moffat

When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.

— Steven Moffat

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

— Steven Moffat

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

— Steven Moffat

You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on…

— Steven Moffat

I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record…

— Steven Moffat

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

— Steven Moffat

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better…

— Steven Moffat

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That…

— Steven Moffat

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

— Steven Moffat

You may have decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn't agree.

— Steven Moffat

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

— Steven Moffat

Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas! The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve? Rose: [shocked] What? The Doctor:…

— Steven Moffat

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult…

— Steven Moffat

“I think that's the way people absorb television. All the explanations in Doctor Who are there if that's your bag, but they're…

— Steven Moffat

Amy: "Can I come?" Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back."…

— Steven Moffat

Peter Capaldi, will always be Doctor Who. You retain the title forever. Ask your predecessors, they all think they're the real one.…

— Steven Moffat

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be…

— Steven Moffat

[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room!…

— Steven Moffat