Steven Knight

I didn't direct [the Taboo episodes]. I wrote all of them.

— Steven Knight

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

— Steven Knight

Dialogue is what I like doing. It's what I am good at doing.

— Steven Knight

I want to be influenced by the world not TV or film.

— Steven Knight

I'm a massive Bowie fan, always have been.

— Steven Knight

Spaghetti Junction is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen at night.

— Steven Knight

Peaky' is the luckiest project I've ever been involved with.

— Steven Knight

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

— Steven Knight

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot…

— Steven Knight

I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels.

— Steven Knight

To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or…

— Steven Knight

There are always people who are doing things that don't fit the official accounts.

— Steven Knight

So many American and international producers want to shoot in the U.K. because of our crew base and tax incentives.

— Steven Knight

My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.

— Steven Knight

I find in Britain people are both more arty and more willing to rip you off.

— Steven Knight

The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

— Steven Knight

I think the best actors do both. I think they fulfill what you want them to do, in terms of the vision…

— Steven Knight

I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly…

— Steven Knight

[The film Woman Walks Ahead] is from a long time ago. I wrote that ages ago. It looks gorgeous and Jessica [Chastain]…

— Steven Knight

[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

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50…

— Steven Knight

Part of the reason for doing 'Peaky Blinders,' apart from the fact that it was a personal story and I've always wanted…

— Steven Knight

I think it is best that if you are the writer you just leave the director to it. With the caveat that…

— Steven Knight

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

I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad…

— Steven Knight

I spoke to Tom's [Hardy] manager and said, "While we're talking about Taboo, do you mind if I also mention this film…

— Steven Knight

One of the horribly frustrating things about writing feature films is the rules everyone applies and says, 'You have to do this…

— Steven Knight

Getting 'Millionaire' right was as hard as writing 'Dirty Pretty Things.' Harder. In the pilots, contestants kept wanting to take the money;…

— Steven Knight

Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick.…

— Steven Knight

I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then…

— Steven Knight

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

No money has ever been spent on 'Peaky Blinders' in terms of publicity, there's no massive campaign - because it's the BBC…

— Steven Knight

I'm not a great film-goer, and I never have been.

— Steven Knight

I'm not a big fan of prequels to be honest.

— Steven Knight

Yeah, I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules.

— Steven Knight

There's nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.

— Steven Knight

What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.

— Steven Knight

I never set out to write a script that is 'topical.'

— Steven Knight

No, I don't actually look at Twitter.

— Steven Knight

Horses do sense things way before people.

— Steven Knight