Steven Knight
Steven Knight

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

TV is a writer's medium, the writer is in charge effectively. So what you write is what gets shot, so in that sense I prefer it. But in terms of the scale of it, features are fantastic.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

The problem with prequels is you're limiting yourself as to where it can go.

Steven Knight
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.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

I just don't like cinemas very much. And when I do see a film it depresses me.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

You meet people and you hear the way they talk and the way they behave, and that subconsciously gets fed into the characters you create 'cause you have to make them flesh and blood somehow.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

Horses do sense things way before people.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

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.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

I'm not a great film-goer, and I never have been.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

You can make somebody bad for a long time, and people love it when they then do one good thing and it's almost like a triumph. Actors seem to enjoy it more.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

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

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel high society, relationships, all of that stuff. There wasn't ever really, apart from Dickens, a literary evocation of working class life.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

Once upon a time there was a physicality to the business of investigating a serious crime. There were objects, pieces of paper, even good old-fashioned fingerprints. Today it's different. Because all of us are routinely and voluntarily giving the intimate details of our lives to all kinds of people whether we realize it or not.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

I do lots of projects in film and TV. You have some that are lucky, and some that are unlucky.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

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.

Steven Knight
Steven Knight

I find in Britain people are both more arty and more willing to rip you off.