In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

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.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Self-plagiarism is style.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

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.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

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.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.