One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

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.

If I won't be myself, who will?