I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

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.

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

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.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

You have the health you deserve.

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

Do you guys have any raw garlic?