Has beens Quotes by Steven Knight

8 Has beens quotes by Steven Knight

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Steven Knight delivers eight short statements that contemplate the nature of things that have passed. Though brief, each line reveals his distinctive approach to memory and former realities.

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I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly…

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[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to…

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I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and…

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[The Girl in the Spider's Web] can't be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so…

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Just the idea that someone is married and they've got a kid, and he reports for work one morning and his boss…

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[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this…

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Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been…

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The sandstorm, which I think is an absolute triumph, could have been awkward. It's sex in a car, so who knows. And…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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I'm not a great film-goer, and I never have been.

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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…

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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…

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“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.”

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I think the best research is people you meet and things that they say, rather than second hand accounts of something. I think when…

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Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams.

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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…

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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…

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