Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

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.'

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.