The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

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

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.