I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your… — 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
East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world. — 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
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 love cooking and kitchens.It's just a great world, and I wanted to explore it. You see the façade, the outside, the… — 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
