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

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 little showbiz never hurt anyone.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

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

There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.

I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.