The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.