The best education in film is to make one

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

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.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.