When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

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

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

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

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.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.