I was, for that short time, the most famous writer on television... There was stuff coming to my house saying, 'Dalek Man - London'.
The function of people in television should be to take people away from all their daily toil.
[on the success of the Daleks] I suppose it's the fact that it is totally non-humanoid. It has no arms or legs, no facial distinctions, so it's not something that's a man dressed up.
[on the Daleks] The letters came from the parents saying "How dare you put these things on?" but the letters came from the kids saying "Please don't stop!"
Survivors (1975) has its roots in the future, as it were, but it's not science-fiction. It's not going into the realms of the impossible; it's skating very close to the possible.