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

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

I'm not much into rear window ethics.