Quotes by Nigel Kneale - Page 1

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
80s
Fans
Television
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What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Future
Space
Ignorance
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I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Fiction
Saws
Science Fiction
Writing
Anyway
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Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Brother
Silly
Stupid
Big Brother
Big Brother Like
Stunt
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I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Attention
Stories
Writing
Demanded
Viewer
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I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Enough
Judging
People
Judge
Work People Enough
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People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Believe
Bottom
Flying
People
Believe People Who
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Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Consideration
Haunting
Slightest
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I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Stories
Television
Would Be
Rule
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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Honesty
Should Have
Stories
Otherwise
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I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
Nigel Kneale / Screenwriter
Company
Film
Two
Closed
Mid
Reckon
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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 / Screenwriter
Hollywood
Land
Names
Big Money
Screenwriter
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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 / Screenwriter
Aiming
Camera
Medium
Recording
Screen
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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 / Screenwriter
Exciting
Turns
Opposite
Me Story Something
Thinks
Viewer
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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 / Screenwriter
Fun
Normality
Paradox
Together
Turns
Writing
Appears
Together Your Fun
Turning
Different Thing
Total
Trick
Suddenly
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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 / Screenwriter
Beaten
Ideas
People
Thinking
Woody
Allen
Judge
Direction
Folk
Largely
Woody Allen
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