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

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

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

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.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation’? I say, 'Your salary’.

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

Actors are cattle.

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