In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try to mimic godliness.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

The GURU is Inside.

When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them.

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.