Doctor Who: 12 Steven Moffat Quotes You Might Not Have Heard
7. On The Doctor Himself...
No matter what he thinks of the Doctors of the past, the present Doctor is Steven Moffat. Well, it's Peter Capaldi, but who chooses what he says, what he does and where he goes? Whilst it's always exciting to hear from the actor themselves what they think of their character, we perhaps gain more insight from the Moffat thinks goes on inside the Doctor's head. He's cleared up a few things in the past outside episodes, and we never even knew...
"In my head, the Doctor doesn't have a bloody clue what age he is (how could he, unless he's keeping count on a big chart somewhere) and only picks on 900 cause it sounds good."
The Doctor Who Forum
"We must never know the Doctor's name, what happened to his wife and family, and the real reason he left Gallifrey. These are secrets too tremendous for the mortal mind. And he's only allowed to tell hot French chicks."
The Doctor Who Forum
"It is perfectly correct to the refer to the character as Doctor Who, even though that is NOT his name, nor the name that he, or anyone else, uses. He also doesn't call himself 'television's favourite Time Lord" either but I feel entitled to call him that too."
The Doctor Who Forum
" Well, there is this thing about where we shoot Doctor Who... apart from that, the Doctor has a fascination with human kind. It's more than a fascination these days actually, it's because he lost his own people, and we look quite like him. Also, you only see in Doctor Who, the stories where he interacts with humanity; Matt Smith's Doctor as we've seen as lived thousands of years that we've never seen. He's met jelly monsters and visited jelly planets, but that's all too boring to watch."
