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

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

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

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

Never turn your back on a friend.

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.