Nigel Kneale Quotes

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don’t like to see only one screenwriter’s name. It’s much better if you’ve got four or five.

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

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

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

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

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

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

The trick is the paradox – turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that’s fun to write.