I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.