"I leave it till the last minute. And then I leave it some more. Eventually, I leave it till I'm desperate. ... I always think, I'm not ready to write it, I don't know what I'm doing, it's just a jumble of thoughts in a state of flux, there's no story, I don't know how A connects to B, I don't know anything! I get myself into a genuine state of panic. ... Normally, I'll leave it till the deadline, and I haven't even started writing. This has become, over the years, a week beyond the deadline, or even more. It can be a week—or weeks—past the delivery date, and I haven't started writing. In fact, I don't have delivery dates any more. I go by the start-of-preproduction date. I consider that to be my real deadline. And then I miss that. It's a cycle that I cannot break. I simply can't help it. It makes my life miserable."
— Russell T Davies (when asked how he knows when to start writing)
"I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all."
— Russell T Davies
"If you channel-hop on a Saturday night, you're up against the big Light Entertainment shows, like Ant and Dec, with a shiny black floor and a huge audience. With background music behind everything. They're phenomenally loud, those shows, and I believe that's what draws an audience. So we decided to make Doctor Who really noisy."
— Russell T Davies
"Before we started, we talked a lot about "eccentricity". Well, the Doctor's got two hearts. He's 900 years old. And he travels in time and space. He doesn't need funny clothes."
— Russell T Davies
"I sit there in the editing room saying 'Don't cut that joke! Cut the plot, cut the murder, cut the story, but don't cut the joke."
—Russell T Davies
"The audience doesn't care about the Zogs from the Planet Zog."
—Davies while talking about a more earth-bound Doctor Who.
"Oh, and five seconds of fury, because a blog on Media Guardian says I made the show 'too childish, too camp and too gay.' TOO GAY? What the hell does 'too gay' mean? Seriously?"
— The Writer's Tale
"...Russell T Davies is not actually a human being but a nicotine golem with a propensity for writing."
"[…] Russell T Davies is the man who, with his own two bare hands, forged the best series of Doctor Who with clay. And then he punched Michael Grade in the face and set him on fire."
— Jay Exci
"Saving it from extinction."
—Frank Cottrell-Boyce, when asked what Davies' greatest contribution to British television was.
