Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat
Steven William Moffat, OBEis a Scottish television writer and producer, known for his work as showrunner, writer and producer of the British television series Doctor Who and Sherlock...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 November 1961
priorities television should
My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.
country apology men
Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.
dog character people
You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way it is and the way it ought to be. But both are clearly defined as deranged – it’s love among the mad. He’s a psycopath, so is she. She’s prepared to throw him to the dogs until he works out the code, he’s prepared to let her nearly get executed. They’re not really going to buy a house and a Volvo together. I’m not saying this is how people should date!
challenges looks tvs
Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.
beautiful mean acting
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.
past time-travel
Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.
blessed doctors wind
Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.
long pavement holmes
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.
running war men
Demons run when a good man goes to war.
queens men doctors
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.
mean writing alternatives
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
thinking stories comedy
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.
writing stuff watches
I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch,