Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
Nigel Kneale
We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.
hopeless
I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.
people work
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
people
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
people system
You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.
money
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
truth
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
science
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
paradox fun normality
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.
movies
worth
I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
rules
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