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'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.