The Doctor...is embarrassingly human for an alien. Steven Moffat More Quotes by Steven Moffat More Quotes From Steven Moffat We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We’ve practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan … we’re probably more excited that we’ve ever been about Sherlock. Steven Moffat excited tears thinking Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost. Steven Moffat running war children There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about. Steven Moffat really-cool generations children I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that. Steven Moffat audience news assuming I like naked women! I'm a bloke! I'm supposed to like them! We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one... When Man invented fire, he didn't say "Hey, let's cook!" He said: "Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!"... The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. Steven Moffat struggle dark men Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind. Steven Moffat genius mind looks An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care. Steven Moffat awful care people You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away. Steven Moffat just-give-up giving-up running You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! Steven Moffat library book world I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best. Steven Moffat ends stories knows [The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words. Steven Moffat doctors mean children Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below Steven Moffat hello might men You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408. Steven Moffat wasting-time boss waste I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction. Steven Moffat strong-women character ideas It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real. Steven Moffat tv-shows emotional real We're all stories, in the end. Steven Moffat doctor-who ends stories The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about detection, but in reality, it's about the best of two men who save each other - a lost, washed-up war hero and a man who could end up committing murders instead of solving them. They come together. They become this perfect unit. They become the best friendship ever, and they become heroes. That's what we fall in love with, not Sherlock on his own. No one can love that man on his own, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - the best friends ever. Steven Moffat falling-in-love hero war If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment. Steven Moffat moments ifs exciting Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident. Steven Moffat doctors believe thinking What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature? Steven Moffat immature ifs
