To Me Psycho Was A Big Comedy.

In The Old Days Villains Had Moustaches And Kicked The Dog. Audiences Are Smarter Today. They Don't Want Their Villain To Be Thrown At Them With Green Limelight On His Face. They Want An Ordinary Human Being With Failings.

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. I Have Prepared One Of My Own. I Have Placed Some Rather Large Samples Of Dynamite, Gunpowder, And Nitroglycerin. My Time Capsule Is Set To Go Off In The Year 3000. It Will Show Them What We Are Really Like.

Self-plagiarism Is Style.

Suspense Is Like A Woman. The More Left To The Imagination, The More The Excitement. ... The Conventional Big-bosomed Blonde Is Not Mysterious. And What Could Be More Obvious Than The Old Black Velvet And Pearls Type? The Perfect ‘woman Of Mystery’ Is One Who Is Blonde, Subtle And Nordic. ... Although I Do Not Profess To Be An Authority On Women, I Fear That The Perfect Title [for A Movie], Like The Perfect Woman Is Difficult To Find.

In The Documentary The Basic Material Has Been Created By God, Whereas In The Fiction Film The Director Is A God; He Must Create Life.