I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

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.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

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

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.