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

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.

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

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.

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

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?