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.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

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

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.