I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

You start selling the movie before you make it.

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.