Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

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.

I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What sister could do so?

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

We need empathy to give empathy.

I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.

I always thought I was different.