To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

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

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

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.

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

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.