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.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

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

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

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

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