I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

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

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

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.