Kneale Quotes

#1. You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Nigel Kneale

#2. Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

Nigel Kneale

#3. It's good to have a Ranger," Lula said. "He's like a personal Spidey.

Janet Evanovich

#4. Atheists are like wild feral dogs wih no master. But Christians are like loving dogs with a giving and loving master. Domesticated dogs will love you always, but Feral wild dogs HAVE to be put down. they are a danger to us all.

Roger Bacon

#5. Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

Nigel Kneale

#6. I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Nigel Kneale

#7. What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

Nigel Kneale

#8. I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

Nigel Kneale

#9. Our decision is never wrong at a particular moment. It's just the phase of time that deals heavily with us.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#10. The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

Nigel Kneale

#11. People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

Nigel Kneale

#12. How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower for 20 minutes is paradise?

Sara Marcus

#13. I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

Nigel Kneale

#14. Piper!" Frank yelled. "Counter those empousai! We need some chaos."
"Thought you'd never ask." She started catcalling at the female demons: "Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back!

Rick Riordan

#15. Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

Nigel Kneale

#16. The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

Nigel Kneale

#17. I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

Nigel Kneale

#18. You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

Nigel Kneale

#19. I never had a career. Only work.

Nigel Kneale

#20. I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

Nigel Kneale

#21. Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else. There are a lot of girls who can't wait to get married and plan their wedding a long time in advance. I'm not like that. I do want to start a family at some point, but I don't know when.

Kristen Stewart

#22. No. Frank Socrates doesn't have conditions, because he's dead. He loves me unconditionally.

A.S. King

#23. I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Nigel Kneale

#24. I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.

Charles Stross

#25. I'd never seen any television before I started.

Nigel Kneale

#26. All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

Nigel Kneale