When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

I always take the audience into account.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.