Scottish - Writer | November 18, 1961 -
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
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I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
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Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
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I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
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The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
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When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.
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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.
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Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.
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Brainy's the new sexy.
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