A children’s story isn’t a smaller, less important thing, it’s the most important kind of story there is - for the simple reason that stories are more important to children. History tells them what has happened. Science tells them what might happen. But stories tell them what always happens.
This giant, flame-haired goddess walked past me and I thought right, okay. Not wee and dumpy then. In fact, slightly too tall for my comfort.
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Steven Moffat on Karen Gillan
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If you’d seen Blink at 10pm you wouldn’t have said it was frightening— it’s mostly Carey Mulligan looking winsome in an old house, but at 7pm it’s surprising.
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Steven Moffat, Radio Times
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Here’s a particularly stupid theory. If we take “The Doctor” to be the Doctor’s name—even if it is in the form of a title no doubt meaning something deep and Gallifreyan—perhaps our earthly use of the word “doctor” meaning healer or wise man is a direct result of the Doctor’s multiple interventions in our history as a healer and wise man. In other words, we got it from him. This is a very silly idea and I’m consequently rather proud of it.
You know, to this day I’m not sure if Matt knew he had a guitar on his back- he might just have collided with a musician.
I think children will always need a hero who fights monsters but never becomes one. […] I think that’s such an important story for children. And when I say children, I mean children of 48.
“When kids see Doctor Who go off the air… as it stands, they will be noticeably taller by the time it comes back. It’s an age for children to wait for that.”
—Steven Moffat
“Children have a relationship with the Doctor that is really quite intense and personal. And they have a creative response to Doctor Who that I think is unprecedented. Children don’t just watch this the way they’d watch Hannah Montana or Wizards of Waverly Place. They actually make up their own monsters, make up their own costumes, design their own TARDISes. Some days—in extreme, slightly psychotic cases—they grow up and start running the show.”
—Steven Moffat, The Sound of Young America
“She so automatically, in a brand new place, says, ‘Is that the most dangerous place? I’ll just pop in there then, and I know how to do it.’”
—Steven Moffat, The Sound of Young America
“There’s a line to be drawn between spooking children and horrifying them. They’ve already got monsters inside their heads— all we’re doing is putting the Doctor in there to fight them.”
—Steven Moffat, Radio Times
“We’ve occasionally thought ‘Can we redesign them [the Daleks]?’ Can we heck! They’ve got to have a dome, and they’ve got to have an eye-stalk, and a sucker. I mean a sucker?! What in the name of God is that sucker?”
—Steven Moffat, Radio Times
