It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

Somewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos.

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

I love taking pictures of food.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.