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

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

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.

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

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