Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

[James Stewart once spoke up on behalf of his longtime friend before an audience of peers on the occasion of American Film Institute's tribute to the director.] What he says he said, ... is that 'actors should be treated like cattle.'

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

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

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.