I'm not much into rear window ethics.

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

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

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.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

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?

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.