People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

Amy: "Can I come?" Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back." Amy: "People always say that." Doctor: "Am I people?...Do I even look like people?...Trust me, I'm the Doctor.

When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.

Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.

I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!