Honestly, I could talk to you for seven hours and not run out of great things to say about David Tennant.
Everybody loves great actors.
My goal is always to leave you slightly wanting more.
If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that sense.
I love 'Doctor Who' as a big, popular, mainstream, accessible show.
I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it's nice to be able to do that, realistically and with credibility. You don't want to do it for the sake of it, or shoe-horn it in. But, it's a good tool to have in the toolbox.
There have been so many different versions of the legend and of 'Camelot,' so what I wanted to do was strip it all back, and go back to the beginning and tell the story of Arthur, from the beginning of the relationship between Merlin and Arthur.
I'm not on social media.
Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end.
Torchwood''s never going to be as heavy an effects show as 'Doctor Who.'
It is a fact of broadcasting that you've got to get the big audiences for the channel that you're on.
You should always think about the mainstream audience first and foremost, because frankly they are the people who are going to get the show recommissioned. There are not enough genre fans to support shows.
I think when you're writing anything you should never be thinking about hardcore genre fans.
Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands.
I think my job is to deliver the best, most cinematic, rich, exciting, surprising and emotional version of 'Camelot.'
The extraordinary thing in all the versions of 'Camelot' and the Arthurian legend is that it's all about the romance and the passion. It's all about great ideals compromised by falling in love with the wrong person.
There is very much a sense of different versions of storytelling within our 'Camelot' - who tells those stories, who creates them, who shifts them.
As a programme-maker you've got a responsibility to examine your choices and how they play in the wider world.
In a wider sense, I'm terrified about my kids coming down to breakfast and saying, ‘Trump said this and they've voted him president?' How do you explain to your children how to behave as a man in this world?
The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.
