“I love cooking and kitchens.It's just a great world, and I wanted to explore it. You see the façade, the outside, the public part, and then you just walk through one door marked "Staff Only" and you're in a different universe.” WorldDifferentWantedUniverseWalksDoorsCookingKitchenStaffCooking LoveDifferent Universes Author:Steven Knight
“It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there.” PeopleKnowsWorldFirstsDoneSnowTreadingFresh Snow Author:Steven Knight
“If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.” IfsWorldLooksWindowBrilliant Author:Steven Knight
“The time came where I was able to write an original screenplay [Allied], and it would be read and noticed. I had a meeting with Brad [Pitt], just around the time that he was making World War Z. I basically told him the story and said, "This is what I want to do," and he really responded, so that helped me put the thing together and write it.” WorldWantWritingSaidWarStoriesWould BeAbleTogetherOriginalsMeetingsWar Of The WorldsScreenplaysBradWorld War Z Author:Steven Knight
“It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in the Second World War, when lots of people were doing things that, outside of a war, you wouldn't do, like killing and dropping bombs. She's doing things that one wouldn't approve of, but it's war.” PeopleWorldWarLevelsKillingActressesWar Of The WorldsBombsDroppingSecond World WarDropping Bombs Author:Steven Knight
“I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.” ThinkingWorldCompanyModernApproachIndiaEastPennies Author:Steven Knight
“East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.” WorldWantedChristianFeltCompanyHugeCivilizationIndiaEastAround The WorldImpetusMultinationals Author:Steven Knight
“The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other, plays the East India against the Crown, all of those sort of overwhelming concepts that ran the world at the time.” WorldPlayStoriesIndividualNationsConceptsIndiaEastRanOverwhelmingCrowns Author:Steven Knight
