Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

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.

There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.