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?

There is something more important than logic: imagination

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.