The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

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.

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

That what keeps us supported is dharma (religion).

Knock the door or ring the bell but don't ever push it! Be gentle!

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

I always want my options to be open.

Don't you ever touch me. Don't ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.