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

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.

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

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

Elvis is in the kitchen and he’s making eggs Benedict!

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

Don't choose anything that's two tones lighter than your natural lip tone, and make sure there's a little pink in the hue so it doesn't look too washed out.

This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.