The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

In films, murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Never turn your back on a friend.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Ideas come from everything.

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain those emotions.

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

The mystery is an intellectual process, But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.