You’ll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
When you’re surrounded by friends and exes, there’s a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they’re hilarious.
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing – but find an alternative to swearing and you’ve probably got a better line.
It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof – it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.
Demons run when a good man goes to war.
If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.
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.
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It’s easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia: You’re soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.
If you don’t expect to like someone and then you do, that’s an incredibly exciting moment.
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
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.
Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You’re just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.
Never trust a hug. It’s just a way to hide your face.
Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.
The day you lose someone isn’t the worst -at least you’ve got something to do- it’s all the days they stay dead.
Everything ends and it’s always sad, but everything begins again, too. And that’s always happy. Be happy. – Return of Doctor Mysterio.
Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they’re going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what’s the point in them being happy now if they’re going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they a re going to be sad later.
Stories are where memories go when they are forgotten.