Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

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

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

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.

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.