30 Quotes by Nigel Kneale

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.