"When an actor comes to me and says, 'I'm not happy with my lines, I'm not happy with my character,' I say, 'There's a door, get out.'"

"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…"

"Actors are cattle."

"The art of terror is to make people comfortable and then pull the rug out from under them."

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