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

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

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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

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.