Steven Moffat Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

  Steven Moffat

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

  "The new Doctor Who: Steven Moffat and Matt Smith". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2010.

• 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.

  Steven Moffat

  Thinking, Stories, Comedy

• When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.

  Steven Moffat

  Believe, Writing, Men

• The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

  Steven Moffat

  Enemy, Suspense, Comedy

• I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

  Steven Moffat

  Writing, Self, Laughing

  "The new Doctor Who: Steven Moffat and Matt Smith". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2010.

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