I keep very close in touch with the fans - to see what they like. I'm very in touch with my audience; I get older and they get younger, which I think is the ultimate compliment. I think hitchhiking brought a few of them out! Even though all young people have never hitchhiked, all people my age did at one point in their life, they just don't do it now.

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

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.