Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

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.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.