Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the...
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many...
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.
Stay out of jail.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. I'll explain what I mean. We are now having a very innocent little chat. Let's supp...
Puns are the highest form of literature.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.