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Steven Knight

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[Wikipedia] Steven Knight is an English film and television show maker. He wrote the screenplays for the films Closed Circuit, Dirty Pretty Things, and Eastern Promises, and also wrote and directed the films Locke, Hummingbird and Serenity. In July 2025, it was announced that he will write the 26th official Jam

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You can make somebody bad for a long time, and people love it when they then do one good thing and it's…

Bad

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A creative person can suddenly realize it's not 90 minutes. They haven't got to do three acts, they haven't got to do…

Arcs

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I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

Eight

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I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything…

Approach

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I will never unravel the mystery of how a script gets into the hands of certain people.

Hands

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Peaky' has attracted a lot of attention from different disciplines in the arts. It was originally going to be a ballet, which…

Art

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The film business seems to attract rules more than any other business. I don't know why it does. I think it's because…

Business

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In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

I think

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Some accents people - internationally - can't understand, also they come with baggage. London means a certain thing, Liverpool means a certain…

Come

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I've been banging on about doing stuff in Birmingham for years and years, and everyone says 'We can't, it's the accent thing.'…

Difficult

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

Beautiful

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I think an under-recognized fact is that TV has changed because the screens have, we now have these massive screen in our…

Good

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There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel…

Books

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I love the BBC. I love working with the BBC. They leave you alone; they give you zero notes. It's like being…

Alone

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In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

Actually

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There [in Allied] was depicting London in the war, as well, and doing that in a way where you see something that…

Hedonistic

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[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this…

Business

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

Books

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I've been writing so much. And what happens with TV is that they split [Taboo] into two blocks, so you get a…

Block

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Any attempt to recreate a world of 1814, or 100 years before that - I think it's important to understand that the…

I think

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There's been a big black hole in the middle of the country as far as TV production goes.

Big

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I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years…

And love

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[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about…

Age

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

Cinema

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Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been…

Cinema

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