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„В отличие от других шоураннеров, вы не принимаете во внимание желания фанатов, когда пишете сюжеты.
— Так нельзя рассказывать историю. Нельзя рассказывать историю, прося аудиторию рассказать её самим.“

„У писателей секса не бывает в принципе, так что всё их творчество на эту тему, по сути, строится на одних догадках.“

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„При написании комедии вы должны быть уверены лишь в том, что есть только один тип отношений в этом мире, и мы все пользуемся им, что все мужчины ведут себя таким образом, и точно так же делают все женщины.“

„Нет лучшего способа выглядеть умнее, чем заглянуть в конец.“

„Моя проблема в том, что сейчас аудитория более грамотна в фантастике, чем когда-либо. Во времена Шекспира вы, вероятно, ожидали увидеть пьесу один или два раза в своей жизни, а сегодня вы видите четыре или пять различных видов художественной литературы каждый день. Таким образом, оставаться впереди аудитории невозможно.“

“Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.”

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“When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end.”

Lines written for River Song, in Forest of the Dead [4.9] (7 June 2008)
Контексте: Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.

“Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.”

Lines written for River Song, in Forest of the Dead [4.9] (7 June 2008)
Контексте: When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.

“There are a few, of course, who believe that this man somehow survived, and that one day he will return.”

“We saw some amazing actresses for this part. But when Karen came through the door, the game was up”

Lines about the Doctor, written for Darla, in Asylum of the Daleks (1 September 2012)
Контексте: First there were the Daleks... And then there was a man who fought them. And then, in time — he died. There are a few, of course, who believe that this man somehow survived, and that one day he will return. For both our sakes, dearest Hannah, we must hope these stories are true.

“What would be the point of having this job if I didn't get to make up some of the maddest possible scenes I've ever had in my head since I was a kid?”

she was funny, clever, gorgeous and sexy. Or Scottish, which is the quick way of saying it. A generation of little girls will want to be her. And a generation of little boys will want them to be her too. <br class="br">On casting Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, as quoted in "Doctor Who assistant is unveiled" 29 May 2009) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8073734.stm

“I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”

On writing a scene of the eleventh incarnation of The Doctor confronting his enemies in The Pandorica Opens, in an interview in Doctor Who Rewind (2011) by BBC America
Контексте: What would be the point of having this job if I didn't get to make up some of the maddest possible scenes I've ever had in my head since I was a kid? For him to stand there and take the mickey out of all those monsters — is just hugely exciting.

“Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.”

Lines written for Sherlock Holmes in the first Sherlock episode, A Study in Pink (25 July 2010)