When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

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.

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

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

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

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

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

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

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

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.

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

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

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

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.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

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.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

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

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

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.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

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

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Self-plagiarism is style.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Ideas come from everything.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Im full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

There is no terror in the bang only in the anticipation of it.

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesnt say.