Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me. Nigel Kneale More Quotes by Nigel Kneale More Quotes From Nigel Kneale I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. Nigel Kneale sawswritingfiction 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 hollywoodlandnames 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 togetherwritingfun People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom. Nigel Kneale flyingbelievepeople I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. Nigel Kneale companyfilmtwo I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either. Nigel Kneale judgingenoughpeople I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. Nigel Kneale storieswritingattention I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories. Nigel Kneale would-bestoriestelevision All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. Nigel Kneale honestyshould-havestories I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan. Nigel Kneale 80sfanstelevision Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is. Nigel Kneale brotherstupidsilly 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 peopleideasthinking What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance? Nigel Kneale futurespaceignorance 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 insidestorymeyou I'd never seen any television before I started. Nigel Kneale startedseennevertelevision 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 dayscameranothingtelevision
