I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.
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I'd 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
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
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
Nigel Kneale
I prefer doing original scripts because I totally control the story - it's all mine. Films don't work like that but television does.
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You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.
Nigel Kneale
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
Nigel Kneale
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