A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Actors are cattle.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Give them pleasure- the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
I deny that I ever said actors are cattle. What I said was, "Actors should be treated like cattle.".
I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes- have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
It's not true that I said 'actors are cattle.' I said 'they should be treated like cattle.'.
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.
Never judge a country by its politicians.
One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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.
Self-plagiarism is style.
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.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
The Academy Awards are trivial bullshit- unless you're nominated for something.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make movies about them.
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book- it makes a very poor doorstop.
We do not recommend suicide as a way of life.
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