Steven Moffat

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

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

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

“Brainy's the new sexy.”

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

“Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!”

“Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.”

“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.”

“I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.”

“Madge: I don't know why I keep shouting at them.The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.~ The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe”

“I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.”

“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.”

“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 think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.”

“I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.”

“I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.”

“I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.”

“I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.”

“Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.”

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