An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are in stories. But many years later, when I met the real Sarah Jane - Lis Sladen herself - she was exactly as any child ever have wanted her to be. Kind and gentle and clever; and a ferociously talented actress, of course, but in that perfectly English unassuming way.

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the rings of an alien world and then a haunted house. There's new Cybermen, new Ice Warriors and a never before attempted journey to the centre of the TARDIS. And in the finale, the Doctor's greatest secret will at last be revealed! If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.