102 Quotes by Steven Knight

There's always a concern over budget with film too but people are more extravagant when they're making a feature. In television everything's tight, everything's paired down and it's just a question of making it look expensive.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

So many American and international producers want to shoot in the U.K. because of our crew base and tax incentives.

Peaky' has attracted a lot of attention from different disciplines in the arts. It was originally going to be a ballet, which is Ballet Rambert, and there is also a lot of music artists who offer their music to the show to be used on the soundtrack.

There used to be grandparents who would say that if you were misbehaving the Peaky Blinders would get you, they were the bogeymen.

Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.

With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but keep your eye on the ticking clock of the series.

I'm not a big fan of prequels to be honest.

I think the best actors do both. I think they fulfill what you want them to do, in terms of the vision for the whole piece. And then they always bring something that does surprise you and shock you.