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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
Steven Moffat / Television Writer
Minimum
Research
Writing
Involves
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An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.
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Awful
Care
People
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There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.
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Children
Generations
Really Cool
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The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
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Differences
Made
Beautifully
Leads
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Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.
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Believe
Doctors
Thinking
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Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!
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Doctors
Rose
Sound
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When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.
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Men
Dark
Fire
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The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.
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Blink
Doctors
Looks
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I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
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Pride
Smart
Successful
Assume
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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.
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Acting
Beautiful
Mean
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Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
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Boring
Drama
Would Be
Certain Things
Rule
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Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.
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Battle
Fighting
Invasion
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I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
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Assuming
Audience
Bad News
News
Rewarded
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Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet!
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Action
Adventure
Peter
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So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?
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Children
Cry
Doctors
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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*
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Doctors
Drunk
Wine
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You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
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Approach
Happens
Ifs
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Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
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Adults
Mean
Swearing
Writing
Adult
Alternative
Increasing
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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.
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Holmes
Long
Pavement
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If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
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Men
Disgusted
Frightened
Pregnant
Wife
Worried
Aside
Wives
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I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.
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Ends
Knows
Stories
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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.
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Art
Great Art
People
Writing
Direction
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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!
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Queens
Men
Doctors
Records
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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.
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Lear
Twins
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I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.
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Inspiring
Mothers Day
Reducing
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I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.
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Reducing
Mothers
Statement
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You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.
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Running
Giving Up
Just Give Up
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Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.
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Doctors
Games
Play
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River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
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Doctors
Names
Song
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River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.
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Cheating
Sexy
Song
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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.
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Men
Doctors
Good Man
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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.
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Comedy
Humour
Stories
Thinking
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I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.
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Character
Ideas
Strong Women
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The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers. Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so...? The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?
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Doctors
Noses
Special
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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.
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Brand New
Envelopes
Good People
People
Writing
Good Your People
Envelope
Good Difficult People
Right People
Script
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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
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Balls
People
Viewpoints
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We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We’ve practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan … we’re probably more excited that we’ve ever been about Sherlock.
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Excited
Tears
Thinking
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The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.
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Feel Better
Lying
Thinking
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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.
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Past
Time Travel
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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.
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Men
Behave
Believe
Writing
Men Women Relationship
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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.
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Comedy
Enemy
Series
Suspense
Shake
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When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.
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Hilarious
Crawling
May
Serious
Stuff
Experiences
Participant
Surrounded
Traumatic
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Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again!
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Doors
Impossible Things
Thinking
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I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?
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Movie
Industry
Mean
People
Television
Vulgar
Love Power Money
Absolutely
Explain
More Power
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The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.
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Crayon
Doctors
Giving
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The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again. River: What face? The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face. River: This is my normal face. The Doctor: Yes it is. River: Oh, shut up. The Doctor: Not a chance.
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Clever
Doctors
Song
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There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap. And what would that be sir? Me
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Smart
Tomorrow
Traps
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Amy: "Can I come?" Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back." Amy: "People always say that." Doctor: "Am I people?...Do I even look like people?...Trust me, I'm the Doctor.
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Doctors
Giving
People
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The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.
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Impossible Things
Miracle
Years
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Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful! The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares! Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me!
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Bed
Doctors
Worry
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