The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book — it makes a very poor doorstop.
Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I’ll introduce you.
Gee, I’m sorry I didn’t hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please.”Anthony Perkin’s Norman BatesTalking To Janet Leigh’s Marion Crane.
I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn’t stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Luck is everything. … My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward to have a low threshold of fear because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.