The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross, in which case... always use force! Amy: Shall I run and get the manual? The Doctor: I threw it in a supernova. Amy: You threw the manual in a supernova? Why? The Doctor: Because I disagreed with it! Now stop talking to me when I'm cross!

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

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