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- "A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the ..."
- "A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. "
- "Actors are cattle. "
- "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. "
- "Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. "
- "Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of ..."
- "Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him ..."
- "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. "
- "For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. "
- "Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a ..."
- "I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking ..."
- "I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small ..."
- "I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks. "
- "I have prepared one of my own timecapsules. I have placed some rather large samples ..."
- "I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be ..."
- "I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying ..."
- "I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without ..."
- "I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind ..."
- "I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them. "
- "If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still ..."
- "In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. "
- "In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what ..."
- "In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder': As you have seen ..."
- "In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. ..."
- "One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in life. "
- "Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't ..."
- "Self-plagiarism is style. "
- "Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey ..."
- "Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to ..."
- "Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. "
- "Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing ..."
- "Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops ..."
- "Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just ..."
- "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human ..."
- "The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. "
- "The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book ..."
- "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. "
- "There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and ..."
- "There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with ..."
- "These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw ..."
- "This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. "