Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

I never argue with people about movies.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.