I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the reader can insert themselves into it, and there is a certain kind of architectural space which is totalitarian, which does not allow you to do that.

Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.

One doesn't mind adverse criticism so long as it isn't stupid.

I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it.

I've been offered radio but never done it, partly because the radio ideas that I've been asked to come up with, I've thought about them and then converted them to telly things.

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.