Nigel Kneale Quotations

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.