Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.

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

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about