"In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes."

"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."

"The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic."

"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."

"Change yourself and your work will seem different."

"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."

"And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government."

"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."