Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think an under-recognized fact is that TV has changed because the screens have, we now have these massive screen in our… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now… — Steven Knight Blue Copy Share Image
When you think 'Peaky Blinders,' when it first began it got mixed reviews and people didn't know what to do with it,… — 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 Artist Copy Share Image
James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them.… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
There's always a concern over budget with film too but people are more extravagant when they're making a feature. In television everything's… — 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
I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The plan is that there would be three seasons [in Taboo], and, as with Peaky Blinders, I have had a destination in… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
You can make somebody bad for a long time, and people love it when they then do one good thing and it's… — Steven Knight Actor Copy Share Image
I never map things out in advance. It would be better if I did and more economical in terms of time, but… — Steven Knight Beginning Copy Share Image
I like to create a character where you believe, deep down, that they don't really care if they live or die. That's… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I think that it's not a bad thing to not be too versed in the vocabulary of cinema, because you start to… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this… — Steven Knight Business Copy Share Image
I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
You work, especially in the movie business more than in TV, but you have an environment where people feel obliged to have… — Steven Knight Business Copy Share Image
There are so many rules about how you make a film and so many conventions that you can and can't do. I… — Steven Knight Cinema Copy Share Image
Locke' was sort of myself trying to find out if you could give yourself the maximum number of obstacles to make enough… — Steven Knight Drama Copy Share Image
Any genre as it's called, I think can be quite reductive in terms of what a film is, because I think there… — Steven Knight Cinema Copy Share Image
A funny thing about film is that it's the only medium where people say there are really rules that you have to… — Steven Knight Character Copy Share Image
The sandstorm, which I think is an absolute triumph, could have been awkward. It's sex in a car, so who knows. And… — Steven Knight Absolutes 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 Cooking Copy Share Image
The story [of Allied ] itself is the story I wrote, and that's what's great about Bob [Zemeckis ]. You have meetings,… — Steven Knight Allied 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 Fantastic Copy Share Image
The film business seems to attract rules more than any other business. I don't know why it does. I think it's because… — Steven Knight Business Copy Share Image
With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but… — Steven Knight Character Copy Share Image
I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with… — Steven Knight Drama 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 Authority Copy Share Image
In other words, when you have someone [like Ridley Scott] with that authority, then you tend to be left alone. But they… — Steven Knight Authority Copy Share Image
I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it's 'isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity, isn't it awful,… — Steven Knight Class Copy Share Image
It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like,… — Steven Knight Beautiful 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 Beginning Copy Share Image
I am someone who thinks that if you've got an actor like that who wants to perform your work, then you should… — Steven Knight Actor Copy Share Image
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.'… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
There [in Allied] were things that were written that were cut, and things that were shot that were cut, but if the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to… — 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 director that does four and another director that does another four. You commit yourself to seven days a week, for 12 or 13 hour days for a long time. I couldn't really do that.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7f/steven-knight-2205_block_i-ve-been-writing-so-much-and-what-happe_2591442.jpg)
![“I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can spend some time, so it's a bit more like reading a good novel, if you like.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a3/steven-knight-2205_bits_i-m-not-suggesting-that-ours-series-is-u_1230019.jpg)
![“The plan is that there would be three seasons [in Taboo], and, as with Peaky Blinders, I have had a destination in mind from the beginning, because I think it helps as a writer. The destination in mind is that James Keziah Delaney sets foot on Nootka Sound. But that's a long way off.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e11/steven-knight-2205_blinders_the-plan-is-that-there-would-be-three-se_1450016.jpg)
![“[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36a/steven-knight-2205_business_2015-it-s-a-time-that-there-s-a-clash-of_2542880.jpg)
![“The sandstorm, which I think is an absolute triumph, could have been awkward. It's sex in a car, so who knows. And I think the rooftops look fantastic [in Allied].” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b9/steven-knight-2205_absolutes_the-sandstorm-which-i-think-is-an-absolu_3032651.jpg)
![“The story [of Allied ] itself is the story I wrote, and that's what's great about Bob [Zemeckis ]. You have meetings, but it's meetings for clarity, not to change what they're saying or doing. He takes what's on the page and executes it so brilliantly.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/948/steven-knight-2205_allied_the-story-of-allied-itself-is-the-story_767740.jpg)
![“In other words, when you have someone [like Ridley Scott] with that authority, then you tend to be left alone. But they were good and they're really good people, and I'm a big champion of the BBC and I think that like minds find each other and I think that FX and BBC is a perfect match.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/steven-knight-2205_authority_in-other-words-when-you-have-someone-lik_940142.jpg)
![“It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like, "This is how a film should be made." It was beautiful.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/393/steven-knight-2205_beautiful_it-felt-at-the-allied-set-like-at-last-i_2174966.jpg)
![“I am someone who thinks that if you've got an actor like that who wants to perform your work, then you should do it, and hopefully Tom [Hardey] likes to do the work that I do, so long may it continue.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/933/steven-knight-2205_actors_i-am-someone-who-thinks-that-if-you-ve-g_1123517.jpg)
![“There [in Allied] were things that were written that were cut, and things that were shot that were cut, but if the film works, they are erased from memory.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/steven-knight-2205_cutting_there-in-allied-were-things-that-were-wr_1200205.jpg)
![“[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to only make a comment when a comment needs to be made.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/steven-knight-2205_comment_taboo-has-been-exactly-the-same-as-worki_740015.jpg)