All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
I'd written a book of short stories that had won the Somerset Maugham prize so I was respectable, but there was no money in short story writing.
I always put humour into my stories because if you construct a horrific scene of some kind you have to balance that with an equal quantity of humour.