Quotes from Steven Moffat

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

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?

Brainy's the new sexy.

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.

Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

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

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

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.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.