“I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.” Quote by Steven Knight
“I think once those friendships, if you use that as an analogy, the friendships between the audience and the character is established, then you can start to take liberties. I believe that as this unfolds people will find the time invested worthwhile.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveCharacterUseI BelieveLibertyAudienceWorthwhileAnalogies Author:Steven Knight
“There's something about the evolution of television where it evolved from to the things that we're now watching and loving. It evolved from film writers, film actors, and I think gradually people are easing themselves into the amount of time they have.” PeopleThinkingFilmActorsTelevisionEvolutionAmountFilm Actors Author:Steven Knight
“A creative person can suddenly realize it's not 90 minutes. They haven't got to do three acts, they haven't got to do the arc, but they can do other things. I think just as novellas turned into novels, I think that television series can begin to have that depth.” ThinkingPersonsThreeCan DoRealizingNovelCreativeMinutesHavensTelevisionSeriesDepthArcsCreative Person Author:Steven Knight
“I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can spend some time, so it's a bit more like reading a good novel, if you like.” IfsReadingBitsNovelUniqueSeriesDepthGravitySuggesting Author:Steven Knight
“With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingCharacterForgetPiecesPeriodsContemporaryThings To Do Author:Steven Knight
“I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.” PeopleThinkingYearsPastHateChangedAnd LoveLove And HateThings Have Changed Author:Steven Knight
“I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how this individual survives amongst them, and that for me as a writer is the connection that you needed to get inside the skin of the main character and wonder how he's going to cope with all this.” LooksCharacterWantedIndividualNationsWonderNeededConnectionsSkinsMain Characters Author:Steven Knight
“I'm very, very excited because I'm just completing Episode 6 of Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders], which again I think is the best yet. And I'm loving it and it's not like work, it's not like a labor, I love doing it, and the boys are coming back and they're loving the scripts.” ThinkingBoysLaborSeriesScriptsExcitedWorking ItEpisodesComing BackCompletingBlinders Author:Steven Knight
“What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.” YearsMindIdeasWantedSecretHappenedReturnConversationProjectsEnglandOriginalsLondonTomsInvitedChordsAdventurerHardyOriginal Ideas Author:Steven Knight
“I spoke to Tom's [Hardy] manager and said, "While we're talking about Taboo, do you mind if I also mention this film project that I've got, which is called Locke, and I need Tom to play the lead." And we spoke about both in that meeting and in the end the deal was that I would do Taboo if he did Locke and vice versa.” IfsNeedsMindSaidEndsPlayFilmDealsTalkingProjectsMeetingsVicesManagersSpokesTomsTabooVice VersaHardy Author:Steven Knight