Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

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

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

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.