An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

If the gift of God is for personal use and gain, God would have used it personally

Breathe as long as the sky is alive

People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole

Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me until You and I are one.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.