Steven Moffat Quotes

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Steven Moffat

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: November 18, 1961

Topics

SlowTelevisionCinemaBoring

Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.

Jenna Wortham

ArtShortFeelNewVineModern

I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

Solange Knowles

MotherCreativeHairEmployeesNever

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Simone Weil

BeautyPromisesNeverAnythingGives

People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.

Mike Nichols

PeopleListeningTalkingWouldThan

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

Dennis Farina

GoodThinkActorGood ActorWorking

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

Brian Dennehy

PersonalityManProblemsSituation

I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.

Pink

LoveDarkLittleProductionSmoky

Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.

Sheila Heti

FriendshipCommitmentPromisesYou

The reason I've gotten so far has to do with an extraordinary talent that I had nothing to do with.

Shelly Burch

TalentNothingReasonExtraordinary

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

Thomas Keller

WineMoreHonestWorkingMuchDrank

Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.

Tim Kaine

Real EstateRealOverYearsEstate

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

Marshall McLuhan

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