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

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 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 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.

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