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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."

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"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."

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"All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about."
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"I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either."
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"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."
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"I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway."
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"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."
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"Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is."
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"I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention."
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"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."
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"I'd never seen any television before I started."
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