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.
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
Self-plagiarism is style.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Ideas come from everything
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
Never turn your back on a friend.
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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.'
I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Puns are the highest form of literature.
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.
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