"Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!"

"Gone with the Wind, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, they all should have had the hero cut down by a Dalek,…"

"Five million Cybermen, easy. One Doctor? Now you're scared."

"We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends."

"[Responding to the perceived surrealism of Clangers] They're surreal but logical. I have a strong prejudice against f…"

"We would go to the BBC once a year, show them the films we'd made, and they would say, "Yes, lovely, now what are you…"

"That was all, but I was fizzing with excitement. It didn't matter what the picture was of. It didn't matter that Mast…"

"I was also invited to give a couple of informal seminars to the Animation School at the RCA. These were so informal t…"

"The films we made were aimed at the Head of Department at the BBC, who was about 57 at the time, and she was a nice l…"

"Being creative, having to do something new, invent something, alter things, in order to show you're still there is a …"