I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

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.

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

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.