I've realized that the only thing I'm interested in is the performance. If the performance is right, then I'm happy. You offer up the dialogue and then the performance comes around.
Steven KnightWhat I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.
Steven KnightObviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.
Steven KnightI was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.
Steven Knight