Steven Knight Quotes

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• I like to create a character where you believe, deep down, that they don't really care if they live or die. That's very liberating for the character because, if the character is prepared to die, then they can do anything. It's impossible to stop them.

  Steven Knight

  Believe, Character, Care

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why can't I do that?" Or you watch a film and it's not good, and you think, "Why am I doing this?" So either way, it feels like being at work.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Two, Watches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

  Steven Knight

  Stories, Odd, Unlikely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there.

  Steven Knight

  People, Snow, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

  Steven Knight

  Attachment, Made, Screenplays

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Feet, Long

  Source: deadline.com

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• You work, especially in the movie business more than in TV, but you have an environment where people feel obliged to have an input because that's what they do, and I think sometimes it can clutter things up and make things more problematic.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, People, Input

  Source: deadline.com

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• Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.

  Steven Knight

  Sometimes, Easier, Process

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now.

  Steven Knight

  People, Proud, Hometown

  Source: collider.com

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• 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 more pleasurable because you have total control.

  Steven Knight

  Writing, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].

  Steven Knight

  Screenplays, Happens, Originals

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always interested in characters who are closed down, but who open up when they choose to, rather than when they're obliged to. I think that's a very appealing thing, for an audience and just in life. I like the idea that something will say nothing, and then get straight to the point. That feels like how your heroes should be.

  Steven Knight

  Hero, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.

  Steven Knight

  Dog, Office, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• 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 dialogue and then the performance comes around.

  Steven Knight

  Dialogue, Performances, Offers

  Source: collider.com

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• I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.

  Steven Knight

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?

  Steven Knight

  Organization, People, Evil

  Source: deadline.com

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• I spoke to Tom's [Hardy] manager and said, "While we're talking about Taboo, do you mind if I also mention this film project that I've got, which is called Locke, and I need Tom to play the lead." And we spoke about both in that meeting and in the end the deal was that I would do Taboo if he did Locke and vice versa.

  Steven Knight

  Talking, Play, Mind

  Source: deadline.com

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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 kept.

  Steven Knight

  Cutting, Should Have, Gone

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that it's not a bad thing to not be too versed in the vocabulary of cinema, because you start to think that certain things are allowed and not allowed.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Cinema

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.

  Steven Knight

  Christian, Civilization, India

  Source: deadline.com

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• I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

  Steven Knight

  Stories, Inspired, Thrillers

  Source: collider.com

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

  Steven Knight

  Eight, Giving, Hours

  Source: deadline.com

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• [The Girl in the Spider's Web] can't be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so it is different, in that sense. It's really taking a very strong central character and thinking, how do you execute this? It's quite different.

  Steven Knight

  Girl, Strong, Couple

  Source: collider.com

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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 was counted, every penny was counted.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, India, East

  Source: deadline.com

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• There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

  Steven Knight

  War, Years, America

  Source: deadline.com

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