Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

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.

When pretending starts, growth stops

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blueFarragut will ever stand, alma mater true

It's how you felt. And feelings don't always make sense. That's why they're feelings - not thnkings, " I said, hoping she'd smile.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.