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.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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

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

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

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