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

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.

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.

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

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.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

No holidays, no country.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

Start leaving what you want to leave. Your future is waiting.

I'm gonna film my entire life and watch it later!

When it's football season, I'm all football.

The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

If you can imagine missing feeling sad, it's the only thing worse than pain.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.