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
It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much… — 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… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams. — 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
Peaky' is a very personal thing for me because it's based on stories that I was told as a kid by my… — 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
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 write about what worries me and, hopefully, things worry me a little bit earlier than they do some other people, purely… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
What I like about 'Taboo' just in general, even in writing it, you are not certain what the motives are sometimes because… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how… — 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
In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened. — 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
One of the horribly frustrating things about writing feature films is the rules everyone applies and says, 'You have to do this… — 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
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
When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
TV is a writer's medium, the writer is in charge effectively. So what you write is what gets shot, so in that… — 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
