Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

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

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.