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

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside….

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own compa….

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 f….

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway..

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