I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

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

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

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.