The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers. Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so...? The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads of people. He's got a wisdom that he didn't have in the early stage. But he stays on the mountain top, and he will die up there. He's not going to change that.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.