It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

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'm not much into rear window ethics.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

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

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.