My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.