This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.

A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder

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