In a good marriage each is the others better half.

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

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

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

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.