Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

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

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

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.