Nigel Kneale Quotes

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

I don't like to direct myself.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

A man's got to know his limitations.

I try to only be in agreeable circumstances.

There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.

I think you create your own boundaries, and you work within them.

I essentially have always directed everything on my TV show without using that title; I edited and wrote all my stuff.

I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

I definitely want to direct and write - all of it.

I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.