[The film Woman Walks Ahead] is from a long time ago. I wrote that ages ago. It looks gorgeous and Jessica [Chastain]… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The time came where I was able to write an original screenplay [Allied], and it would be read and noticed. I had… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can… — 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'm a big Birmingham City supporter and seeing the fans dressed as Peaky Blinders is one of my proudest moments. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
There have been times when I've shaved twice in the same morning because I've forgotten I've shaved already. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I never map things out in advance. It would be better if I did and more economical in terms of time, but… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a physicality to the business of investigating a serious crime. There were objects, pieces of paper,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
You can make somebody bad for a long time, and people love it when they then do one good thing and it's… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that. — 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 was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I've been writing so much. And what happens with TV is that they split [Taboo] into two blocks, so you get a… — 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 visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having… — 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