Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

I won't ever do e-mail.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.