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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and...   Movies
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 ...  
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something t...  
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears...  
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 fro...  
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immedi...  
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: s...  
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.  
I have prepared one of my own timecapsules. I have placed some rather ...  
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should ...  
I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a m...  
I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That wh...  
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 st...  
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the ...   Movies
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and...   Movies
In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder': As you have s...  
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences ...  
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in ...  
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And...  
Self-plagiarism is style.  
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with ...  
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't wan...  
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.  
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about...  
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the s...  
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change ...  
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of th...   Movies
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...  
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, a...  
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be bles...  
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was insp...  
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in ce...  
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a...  
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order...   Science
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, '...  
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any l...