I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I do lots of projects in film and TV. You have some that are lucky, and some that are unlucky. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
[The film Woman Walks Ahead] is from a long time ago. I wrote that ages ago. It looks gorgeous and Jessica [Chastain]… — 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
Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think that it's not a bad thing to not be too versed in the vocabulary of cinema, because you start to… — Steven Knight 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
I am definitely going to continue directing, but I am always going to try to explore new ways of making films. It… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
[Allied] meant to be a film that's a bit different. It's roots are in the '40s and '50s, and that sort of… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
A funny thing about film is that it's the only medium where people say there are really rules that you have to… — 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
There are so many rules about how you make a film and so many conventions that you can and can't do. I… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The film business seems to attract rules more than any other business. I don't know why it does. I think it's because… — 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
One of the horribly frustrating things about writing feature films is the rules everyone applies and says, 'You have to do this… — Steven Knight 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 Copy Share Image
I just don't like cinemas very much. And when I do see a film it depresses me. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why… — 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 Copy Share Image
Any genre as it's called, I think can be quite reductive in terms of what a film is, because I think there… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 your side. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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