What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature? Steven Moffat More Quotes by Steven Moffat More Quotes From Steven Moffat Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet! Steven Moffat peteractionadventure 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. Steven Moffat revengekidsthinking 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. Steven Moffat good-mandoctorsmen I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well. Steven Moffat comicgeekbook So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying? Steven Moffat crydoctorschildren 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. Steven Moffat mothers-dayreducinginspiring It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement. Steven Moffat holmespavementlong Brainy's the new sexy. Steven Moffat sexy Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger. Steven Moffat daleksaddlife Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence. Steven Moffat casescoincidencebusy Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger. Steven Moffat studiostelevisionway 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. Steven Moffat worriedwifemen Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins. Steven Moffat invasionbattlefighting There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands. Steven Moffat husbandmenboys I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the Queen should be played by a man! Steven Moffat doctorsqueensmen Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male. Steven Moffat apologymencountry Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard. Steven Moffat writingwittymean 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. Steven Moffat selfwritinglaughing You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way it is and the way it ought to be. But both are clearly defined as deranged – it’s love among the mad. He’s a psycopath, so is she. She’s prepared to throw him to the dogs until he works out the code, he’s prepared to let her nearly get executed. They’re not really going to buy a house and a Volvo together. I’m not saying this is how people should date! Steven Moffat dogcharacterpeople You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt. Steven Moffat falling-in-lovefriendshipwar
