If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.
You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.
The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
Amy: Pond and her boys . . . my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a peruvian folk band.
In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.
Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.
In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.
There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.
Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.
I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.
'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.
I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.
If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out.
I enjoy the details. I enjoy coming up with ideas for improving the script, changing scenes and deciding what locations and wardrobe should be - the process of making a film.
There's a very big difference between negotiating to borrow billions of dollars on behalf of MCA and negotiating to borrow 28 cents in connection with making independent pictures.
