30 Quotes by Nigel Kneale

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

I'd never seen any television before I started.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

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.

Certainly, it isn't a ghost story where people go into a haunted house. There have been two or three made on that basis, but I didn't want to do that.

I'd written a book of short stories that had won the Somerset Maugham prize so I was respectable, but there was no money in short story writing.