Making A Film Means, First Of All,

I Would Almost Say That The Best Screen Actor Is The Man Who Can Do Nothing Extremely Well.

Disney Has The Best Casting. If He Doesn't Like An Actor He Just Tears Him Up.

We Seem To Have A Compulsion These Days To Bury Time Capsules In Order To Give Those People Living In The Next Century Or So Some Idea Of What We Are Like.

Drama Is Life With The Dull Bits Left Out. There Is No Terror In The Bang, Only In The Anticipation Of It. I Believe In Putting The Horror In The Minds Of The Audience, And Not Necessarily On The Screen. The Length Of A Film Should Be Directly Related To The Endurance Of The Human Bladder.

I Try To Offset Any Tendency Towards The Macabre With Humour. As I See It, This Is A Typically English Form Of Humour. It's A Piece With Such Jokes As The One About The Man Who Was Being Led To The Gallows To Be Hanged. He Looked At The Trap Door In The Gallows, Which Was Flimsily Constructed, And He Asked In Some Alarm, 'i Say, Is That Thing Safe?