The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

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.

The most important question I ask myself as a parent is this. How can I best help my children be fully themselves and happy with who they are in the world, however they show up.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.