"Violence on the screen increases violence in people only if those people already have sick minds. I once read somewhere that a man admitted killing three women and he said he had killed the third woma…"

"I always believe in following the advice of the playwright [Victorien] Sardou. He said: 'Torture the women! ' … The trouble today is that we don't torture women enough."

"The more you frighten the audience, the more they love you."

"I like to play with the audience, to make them wonder what's going to happen next."

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