There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984).
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
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.
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Television has brought back murder into the home — where it belongs.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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