“Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.”

I’m not into politics. I’m into survival.

I’m not from a particularly sci-fi background. I’m not anti sci-fi at all, but I’ve never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.

The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.

The best content is the means, not the end.

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I’d always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

Just because there’s a trillion places to put an idea doesn’t mean you don’t need an idea in the first place

I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I’m a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I’m slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.

I want to explore a lot of things, do acting here and there.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.

Her soul was too deep to explore by those who always swam in the shallow end.

What I’m exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It’s an area that I’m curious about, and I’m researching it to see if there’s a photographic essay in it for me. If images don’t start to come, I’ll go to something else.

In order to access a warrior’s courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends. I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.