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

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

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

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

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

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

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.

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