I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.