You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.

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

Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful! The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares! Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me!

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.

We're all stories, in the end.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

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