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

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

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

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.

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.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

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