Nigel Kneale

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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.


— Nigel Kneale


#honesty #just #otherwise #playing #should

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.


— Nigel Kneale


#big brother #brother #like #silly #sounded

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.


— Nigel Kneale


#enough #i #judge #other #people

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.


— Nigel Kneale


#made #my own #myself #only #own

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.


— Nigel Kneale


#fiction #i #myself #never #really

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.


— Nigel Kneale


#companies #down #ealing #films #i

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.


— Nigel Kneale


#demanded #i #story #viewer #wanted

I'd never seen any television before I started.


— Nigel Kneale


#before #i #never #seen #started

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.


— Nigel Kneale


#i #keen #television

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.


— Nigel Kneale


#another #any #before #camera #could






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" It was also included in the British Film Institute's "TV 100" list in 2000 where it was praised for the themes and subtexts it explored. Similarly in 1995 Kneale scripted a four-part adaptation of one of Kerr's sequels to the book A Small Person Far Away but this also went unproduced.

He was most active in television joining BBC Television in 1951 ; his final script was transmitted on ITV in 1997. ". G.