Books Quote by Steven Knight

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

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

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

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

— Steven Knight

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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