A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

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

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

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.