I like stories with lots of psychology.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.