The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.

There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.