I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.