Nigel Kneale

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

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

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.