It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock.
If I won’t be myself, who will?
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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.
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline – production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
The best actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well...
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.
Never turn your back on a friend.
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
I like stories with lots of psychology.
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.