History Quotes by Steven Knight

8 History quotes by Steven Knight

Knight’s knack for weaving narrative into real‑world events comes alive in these eight lines. The collection offers a quick taste of his cinematic perspective on how history shapes and is shaped by human drama.

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I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no…

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I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back…

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Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

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True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. It's always good to have a world that people don't…

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What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an…

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The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.

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In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

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I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back…

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