A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

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

It has been rumored that "Psycho" is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

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

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