Quotes from Mark Gatiss

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series.

'Misfits' is one of my favorite shows; I think it's a fantastic show.

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.