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
I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in characters who are closed down, but who open up when they choose to, rather than when they're obliged… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly… — 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
In other words, when you have someone [like Ridley Scott] with that authority, then you tend to be left alone. But they… — 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
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more… — 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
I am someone who thinks that if you've got an actor like that who wants to perform your work, then you should… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
[The Girl in the Spider's Web] can't be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think once those friendships, if you use that as an analogy, the friendships between the audience and the character is established,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The plan is that there would be three seasons [in Taboo], and, as with Peaky Blinders, I have had a destination in… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
You work, especially in the movie business more than in TV, but you have an environment where people feel obliged to have… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I wouldn't put myself in that bracket, but it's one of those things. I think what helps is that we [with Tom… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
There were three options [in Allied], which were for [Bred Pitt] to shoot [Marion Cotillard], for them to escape, or for her… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
A creative person can suddenly realize it's not 90 minutes. They haven't got to do three acts, they haven't got to do… — 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
[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years… — 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
There's something about the evolution of television where it evolved from to the things that we're now watching and loving. It evolved… — 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