Moffat: Making Doctor Who Doesn’t Get Any Easier
Speaking at the Royal Television Society panel: “The terrifying thing about Doctor Who is that you discover at the start of every new show that you have learned absolutely nothing at all, that it’s brand new. It always makes you feel completely like ‘oh, I thought I’d got the hang of this but I have no idea what to do”.
“I feel genuinely as inadequate and amateurish today as I felt on my first day,” he jested.
He adds: “There isn’t a paradigm episode that you keep remaking, they’re all very different, the scripts, the effects, the sets, the design, the casting, everything is different every time, that’s what makes it a great show.”
Despite Doctor Who’s worldwide success and huge merchandising Moffat says there is never enough money: “There’s money – we don’t have enough – and there’s time – there’s just no time.
“Every two weeks, we’re making a new one! I don’t think anyone feels that this is a limitless world, but it’s trying to conceal those limits, trying to work intelligently within them.”
“What is extraordinarily expert about all branches of our effects department is how creative they are within quite savage limitations.”