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. — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
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… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America. — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
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,… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
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… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early settlers in… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
