“The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.”

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

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

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Everything’s perverted in a different way.

I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

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.

If I won’t be myself, who will?

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

Ideas come from everything.

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

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.

If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

If they are, they can fill in the details even better than I could, just with their imaginations.

Impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up.” We’ve abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.

Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst.