Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

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.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Never turn your back on a friend.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.