Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion we’re leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.
I always tend to favor the newer idea.
Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.
I absolutely love television, and I don’t mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?
Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
I can say with pride verging on smugness that I’ve got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
I don’t want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
I hope I won’t become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don’t really know comic books all that well.
Well we’ve moved through the funfair a bit – we’ve done the rollercoaster, now we’re on the ghost train.
Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.
The Doctor: I’ve seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It’s massive!
I don’t know. I can’t tell the future I just work there.
I’d forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.
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!
Don’t play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I’m the Doctor, and you’re in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.
What’s the point of being a grown-up if you don’t get to be immature?
You should always waste time when you don’t have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules. The Doctor: Good men don’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.