The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

The best education in film is to make one

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.