Nigel Kneale

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

— Nigel Kneale

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

— 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…

— Nigel Kneale

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

— Nigel Kneale

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total…

— Nigel Kneale

I'd never seen any television before I started.

— Nigel Kneale

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

— Nigel Kneale

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

— Nigel Kneale

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he…

— Nigel Kneale

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

— Nigel Kneale

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

— Nigel Kneale

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another…

— Nigel Kneale

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

— Nigel Kneale

“I never had a career. Only work.”

— Nigel Kneale

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

— Nigel Kneale

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

— Nigel Kneale

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

— Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to…

— Nigel Kneale