Steven Moffat Quotes
If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet!
I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the Queen should be played by a man!
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.
It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.
You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.
You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.
Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.
Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*
Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.
Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules. The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?
I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.
The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.
Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.
Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!-The Doctor (Matt Smith)
Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.
Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.
