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Nigel Kneale

"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."

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"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."

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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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"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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"People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom."
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"The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it."
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"I'd never seen any television before I started."
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