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

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

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?

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

If I won't be myself, who will?

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.