Puns are the highest form of literature.
Ideas come from everything
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
If I won't be myself, who will?
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about
The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
If you can't do it naturally, then fake it.
You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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.
Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.
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?
Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please." Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.
I never said actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake
Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.
