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

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

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

I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.

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.

I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.

I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

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

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.

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.

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.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.

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

The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

Don’t ask ‘Why’, ask instead, ‘Why not’.

A light here required a shadow there.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Like a shadow, I am and I am not.

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.