Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

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

I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

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

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

You better have great practices.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

Most opportunities are disguised as problems.

That grand old poem called Winter

If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.