I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

Life is like our heart, the people are the nerve's and society is the brain

Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Every minute of life I take a risk it's part of the enjoyment.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.