Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

Never turn your back on a friend.

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.

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.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder