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> [I'd never seen any television before I started.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/i-d-never-seen-any-television-before-i-started/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

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## More by Nigel Kneale

> [I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/i-m-in-my-80s-and-not-a-keen-television-fan/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/big-brother-sounded-like-a-silly-stunt-and-that-s-what-it-is/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/you-get-to-hollywood-and-you-are-in-the-land-of-big-money-where-they/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/people-who-believe-in-flying-saucers-are-the-scrapings-from-the-bottom/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/the-trick-is-the-paradox-turning-your-story-inside-out-now-if-it-is/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [I'd never seen any television before I started.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/i-d-never-seen-any-television-before-i-started/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/i-wanted-to-write-a-story-that-demanded-the-viewer-s-attention/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/i-don-t-judge-other-people-s-work-and-i-don-t-see-enough-of-it-either/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/the-only-folk-i-can-judge-are-people-like-woody-allen-who-i-think-is/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/i-never-really-saw-myself-as-writing-science-fiction-anyway/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/all-stories-should-have-some-honesty-and-truth-in-them-otherwise-you/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/nothing-could-be-recorded-in-those-days-except-by-aiming-a-movie/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/i-made-a-rule-for-myself-that-the-only-television-things-i-would-do/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [“I never had a career. Only work.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/i-never-had-a-career-only-work/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

> [I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-kneale/i-reckon-i-closed-down-at-least-two-films-companies-one-of-which-was/)

[Nigel Kneale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-kneale/)

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