Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is. Nigel Kneale More Quotes by Nigel Kneale More Quotes From Nigel Kneale I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. Nigel Kneale saws writing fiction 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 hollywood land names 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 together writing fun 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 flying believe people I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. Nigel Kneale company film two I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either. Nigel Kneale judging enough people I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. Nigel Kneale stories writing attention I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories. Nigel Kneale would-be stories television All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. Nigel Kneale honesty should-have stories I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan. Nigel Kneale 80s fans television 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 people ideas thinking What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance? Nigel Kneale future space ignorance We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think. Nigel Kneale You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite. Nigel Kneale inside story me you I'd never seen any television before I started. Nigel Kneale started seen never television Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium. Nigel Kneale days camera nothing television
