Martin Bashir Quotes

You say he’s childish, but he’s very professional about business transactions.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.