Val Guest

“Hammer was a family. We all knew each other, we all worked together, and we all believed in what we were doing.”

“I've always said, 'Give me a good script and I'll be a hundred times better director'.”

“The secret of comedy is not to try to be funny. The situations are funny. Let the audience find the humor.”

“A director's job is to tell a story. If the audience doesn't understand the story, you've failed.”

“We wanted to make it as authentic as possible, so we used real newspaper offices and got journalists to play themselves.”

“I never wanted to be pigeonholed. I loved the challenge of jumping from a musical to a science fiction, then to a war film.”