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.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

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

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

Never judge a country by its politicians.