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 out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

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

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.

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 company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

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

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