Everything's perverted in a different way.

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.

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

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

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.