Nigel Kneale Quotes

I'd never seen any television before I started.

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.

I never had a career. Only work.

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

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.

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

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

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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

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

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.