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

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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

We are all part of something magnificent.

What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.

Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise...

Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to take their blood or change the bedpan, and to give them human-to-human touch.

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

It's very dangerous, making your happiness based on success and fashion. I know the media cares about all that, but I try to ignore that world anyway.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen to the wood. If tone comes off the neck, you can bet it's gonna sound beautiful through an amp

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.