Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!
I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We’ve practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan … we’re probably more excited that we’ve ever been about Sherlock.
Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost.
There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.
And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.
One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.
We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.