My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

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

The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.

Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.