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.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.