Never Turn Your Back On A Friend.

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?

Mystery Is An Intellectual Process... But Suspense Is Essentially An Emotional Process.

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.

Claude Jade Is A Brave Nice Young Lady. But I Don't Give Any Guarantee What She Will Do On A Taxi's Back Seat.

Television Is Like The American Toaster, You Push The Button And The Same Thing Pops Up Everytime.