People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.
I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?
Rule 1: The Doctor lies.
Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.
It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.
Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.
I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.
You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.
I wouldn't mind removing all the mistakes I have made. That would be exhausting and take forever. Honestly, it's one of the spells of my life that has been the most perfect. Not because I did the job perfectly, because of course I did it very imperfectly, but because I enjoyed it so much. What would I change? I complain a lot. I whinge, I more or less communicate in levels of complaint so I wish sometimes I didn't just spend all my time saying, 'I'm working so hard, what do I get in return for this?'.
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
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.
You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.
Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.
You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think: "Not bad, they're okay," and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it; and they just — and they turn into something so beautiful.
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.
It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the rings of an alien world and then a haunted house. There's new Cybermen, new Ice Warriors and a never before attempted journey to the centre of the TARDIS. And in the finale, the Doctor's greatest secret will at last be revealed! If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!
There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.
Amy: "Can I come?" Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back." Amy: "People always say that." Doctor: "Am I people?...Do I even look like people?...Trust me, I'm the Doctor.
Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads of people. He's got a wisdom that he didn't have in the early stage. But he stays on the mountain top, and he will die up there. He's not going to change that.
Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)
