Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.