In the daylight, order ruled, fences stood, how-do-you-do's and polite nods were the recipe. But at night, darkness rendered everything still and hush and secret. Minnie was a curator of secrets.

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn

Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.

I have never been much of a researcher

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter

I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face.

If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.