I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

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

It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.