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

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.