There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have… — Steven Knight 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
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
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 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
I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything… — 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
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming. — 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
Any attempt to recreate a world of 1814, or 100 years before that - I think it's important to understand that the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think it is best that if you are the writer you just leave the director to it. With the caveat that… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back… — 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
