Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.

If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.