Quotes by Nigel Kneale

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and thats what it is. (Nigel Kneale)

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 didnt want to do that. (Nigel Kneale)

I always put humour into my stories because if you construct a horrific scene of some kind you have to balance that with an equal quantity of humour. (Nigel Kneale)

I like inventing stories. Very often its exciting to write about an imaginary future based on trends, you work out what things could wind up as. (Nigel Kneale)

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

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. (Nigel Kneale)

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewers attention. (Nigel Kneale)

I'd never seen any television before I started. (Nigel Kneale)

Id 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. (Nigel Kneale)

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium. (Nigel Kneale)