Mark Gatiss Quotes - Page 2

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.

I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

We turned the lights off to save money, so you can't really see it. It's the same show. Hopefully, there are lots of laughs and lots of great personal stuff, but it is explicitly a darker season [4 of Sherlock Holmes].

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?