"I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be"

Tom Baker's quote talks to his method to his function as the 4th Doctor in the British sci-fi tv series Doctor Who. He suggests that he never ever analyzed his efficiency in terrific detail, nor check out the scripts thoroughly, since he wished to maintain the secret of his character. He wanted to remain a "benevolent alien" and felt that if he understood excessive about the plot, it would remove from the magic of the program. His approach to the function was to remain strange and unknowable, and to let the audience fill in the blanks. He wished to be a character that viewers might forecast their own concepts onto, and to stay a strange figure that could never be completely comprehended. His method to the role was to remain enigmatic and to let the audience's creativity do the work.