William Hartnell Quotes

I'm so excited to be working on Doctor Who as it's such a big and important part of British Culture. I can't wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we'll be shooting not too far from my home town.

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

I love 'Doctor Who.'

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

What I've found I really like about sci-fi is it can look at philosophical questions about humanity but in a different context. It can really make you think. That's what 'Doctor Who' does, even if it's a bit silly some other times.

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

I've been enthralled by deep vistas of space and time ever since watching George Pal's film of 'The Time Machine,' while an early encounter with Arthur C. Clarke's 'The City And The Stars' cemented my love for books with a scope spanning millions of years.

I can go on for hours about how 'Doctor Who' is a portal fantasy writ across the stars, how the companions are falling down the rabbit hole over and over again forever, tumbling head over heels into mystery. Hours.

I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.'

'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended up being a writer, but almost certainly not the same one.

I love 'Doctor Who' as a big, popular, mainstream, accessible show.

Doctor Who' is such a broad show. It's got the whole universe to explore.

It's like a childish dream come true to be in 'Doctor Who' and to be an alien.

That was one of the amazing things about Doctor Who. Considering it is such an enormous charabanc, a centerpiece of international TV, it feels incredibly small when you are actually involved in it. It is very intimate, very small; it feels like a few people messing about with a camera.

We did 'Doctor Who' for forty-eight weeks a year but I loved it.

I think 'Doctor Who' is the greatest idea television has ever had, and our job is to convince the rest of the world.

Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

I always liked 'Doctor Who' but I wasn't a crazed fan when I was a kid.

Torchwood''s never going to be as heavy an effects show as 'Doctor Who.'