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

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

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?

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

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.