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?

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.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

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

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.