All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

The sun is rising with a bright golden glittering glint. Let us wake up to enjoy the joyful battles of light and darkness.

A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.