Steven Moffat Quotes

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

The way I'm doing it is I'm trying to think to myself, "Okay, I have the name Superman, and he's going to be a guy that deserves the name 'Superman.' I'm trying to forget about Krypton, about The Daily Planet what would I do if I was thinking it up?" I can do it any way at all..I can make him an Eskimo midget who's toothless and blind... I can do anything. It's difficult .

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

As far as being locked into one certain thing, that's not what I want to do. I just want the opportunity to go off and do something else, whether it's plays or musicals or whatever.

You can be imaginative, you have the technology to convert your vision, you have the freedom to write the kind of stories you want to tell beyond the set formulas. Also, you have varied platforms to tell different kinds of stories.