“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.”

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.

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

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

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

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.

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

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

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.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

There is something more important than logic: imagination.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

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

If you don’t like a rule, just follow it, Reach on the top and change the rule.

Sometimes you need to initiate change to move towards the right way.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

It is my duty to help change the world. Finding true love allows me to complete that goal.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Change begins within each of us.

I want to go, look for my essence, know myself and change myself; because nobody is constant.

When will the leaves begin to change in this body of mine?