A murder without gleaming scissors is like asparagus without the hollandaise sauce - tasteless.

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. 15 August 1966

One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs. 15 August 1966

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.