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.

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.

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.

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.

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

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