"I'm a very visual person. I see things in pictures."

"I'm a great believer in telling the audience all the information, so that they're ahead of the characters."

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

"There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."

"Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, everyone's afraid of something."