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.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

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.

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.