Steven Knight Quotes

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. You do a film, and you know where you're going; you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret.

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.