Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
