Steven Moffat Quotes

The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

We're all stories, in the end.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.

The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.

River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

Always take a banana to a party.

If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

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

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7.

All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.

I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!

The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers. Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so...? The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.