The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.

We've got the prettiest girls in the world here in Los Angeles and there's a great music scene. And I learned what I learned about cinema here in Los Angeles so it's always been really important to me as a city to live in and I love making movies about it.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.