I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

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

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

If I won't be myself, who will?

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.