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Steven Moffat Biography

Steven William Moffat OBE (/ˈmɒfət/; born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer and producer, best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of British television series Doctor Who and Sherlock.

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If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

Exciting, Expect, Ifs, Like, Moment, Moments

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

Easy, Fond, Funny, Mean, Witty, Writing

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

Character, Female, Fiction, Ideas, Strong Women, Women

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Pride, Say, Smart, Successful, Verging

All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.

Broken, Caring, Heart, Hearts, Lives

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

Audience, Different, Experience, Fiction, Play, Staying

You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

Falling In Love, Friend, Friendship, Man, Psychopath, War

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

Button, Evaluated, People, Self, Write, Writing

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

Business, People, Stupid, Thinking

The Doctor. . . is embarrassingly human for an alien.

Aliens, Doctor, Doctors, Embarrassingly, Human, Humans

Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet!

Action, Adventure, Cardiff, Coleman, Peter, Scariest

Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful! The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares! Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me!

Bed, Careful, Doctors, Reinette, Worry, Young

What is immutable about Sherlock Holmes? He favors reason over emotion, but actually underneath that, there is a lot of emotion going on. You can't suddenly make him ordinary because he would hate that. He's not suddenly going to be somebody else.

Emotion, Favors, Hate, Holmes, Ordinary

Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.

Day, Past, Somehow, Time Travel, Travel, Traveling

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Come, Doctor, Doctors, Physics, Quantum, Rockets

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

Awful, Care, People, Storytelling

There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap. And what would that be sir? Me

Continued, Existance, Smart, Tomorrow, Traps, Value

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

Explain, Industry, Mean, People, Television, Vulgar

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

Book, Books, Library, Weapons, World

Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.

Confident, Fascinatingly, People, Rude

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