The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

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.

Is the cinema more important than life?

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

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

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