Steven Moffat Quotes

Change is as good as a rest. It keeps me fresh.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.

I'm for experimentation. I'm for trying things. That's true whether we're talking about hardware or personnel issues. We need to try some things, because doing what we have always done because we've always done it that way doesn't work.

I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I will always do something new.

You can beat a dead horse as much as you want, but it doesn't come back to life. And sometimes you just have to change things up to keep the excitement and enthusiasm in the sport.

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."

Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that.

Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"

When you do something that people respond to, and then you start altering the blueprint for what worked, it's pretty fear-inducing. But sometimes, you have to do that, in order to push the boundaries.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day. But the thing with improvisation is that 90% of what you come up with won't be used and for good reason. But you keep going for the occasional gem that you might come up with. You do a scene and a lot of the time. We wouldn't cut. So, you come up with something that might be funny and then you go, 'alright, what else'? So, you kind of throw stuff against the wall and see what happens. But you've got to be prepared to make a fool of yourself.

At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing it”iteration is a way of engineering.