Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

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.

A life without problems is a life without choices.

Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows of our lips, and the sobs in our voices.

Psalm 57:1--Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.