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.

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

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.

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

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

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.