Steven Knight Quotes

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

The Pandora's box of unholiness is attempting to sing anything that Freddie Mercury ever sang.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

I follow my instincts. Maybe I'd be more successful in my business and my private life if I did things like everybody else. But I just feel like I'm different from everybody else.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

My lifestyle is probably not quite what people would expect it to be.

My parents aren't really conformists.

I love period drama as much as the next person, but there's a tendency to let all of the costume get in the way of the people.

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.

I would love to make a romantic comedy.

I'm not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.

My work life is pretty much the opposite of what you would expect.

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

I don't think there's anything traditional about me.

I'm always doing everything backwards.

I've been anything but an establishment kind of guy.

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script.

I mean, maybe I'm alternative in that my stuff's not mainstream, doesn't want to be mainstream, could never be mainstream.

I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.

My films are completely offbeat.

I'm quite un-traditional.

To read a piece of material from a period drama told from the woman's perspective is just so unique.

I want to do films that will make an impact and project me in a different way.