Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

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

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.