I always take the audience into account.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

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 nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Everything's perverted in a different way.

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

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