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

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

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

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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

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.

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