“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.”
“In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.”
“Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.”
“(when talking to a fans mother who was complaining that her daughter would no longer go in the shower after watching 'Phsyco') 'Then madam I suggest you dry-clean her'”
