Nigel Kneale famous quotes

03-24-2025

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
-- Nigel Kneale

#Writing #Fiction #Saws
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

#Land #Names #Four
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

#Fun #Writing #Together
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
-- Nigel Kneale

#Haunting #Consideration
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
-- Nigel Kneale

#Believe #People #Flying
I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
-- Nigel Kneale

#Two #Film #Company
I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.
-- Nigel Kneale

#People #Judging #Enough
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
-- Nigel Kneale

#Writing #Stories #Attention
I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
-- Nigel Kneale

#Stories #Television #Would Be
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
-- Nigel Kneale

#Honesty #Stories #Should
I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.
-- Nigel Kneale

#Fans #Television #80s
Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
-- Nigel Kneale

#Brother #Silly #Bigs
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

#Thinking #Ideas #Judging
What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?
-- Nigel Kneale

#Future #Ignorance #Space

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