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

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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

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

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Does man think that We will not assemble his bones? Yes [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips " .Quran The Resurrection 75

If you are you because you are you, and I am I because I am I, then you are you and I am I.If you are you because I am I, and I am I because you are you, then you and I are not.

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

I’m just not interested.” “Do you have ovaries?” Jacob asked. I shot him a look. “Yes.” … “Then how are you not interested.

A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.