I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".