I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

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.

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed.

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

I've dipped my toe into the beauty world and I'd like to keep it there!

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.