Steven Knight Quotes

For a writer, working in television is an incredibly rewarding medium. You're in charge of all aspects of production and get to see your vision come to life every week.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

TV is a writer's medium.

We feel like we're kind of movie guys working in TV. So we're looking forward to that day when we get to work in that medium.

Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great in that way. It's as close to theater as you can get.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.

Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely.

TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost a TV schedule to it. I was constantly working on these projects. There was not a whole lot of lull but I've gone onto other feature projects that's like, 'Okay, I'll get back to you on notes.'

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.

The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.

The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds.

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Film's a director's medium. Stage an actor's medium.