A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

It's a very weird thing to know where you want to be in life and all of a sudden to actually have taken some real steps is a very strange feeling. I've really done something that I'm proud of.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.