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

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

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

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.

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

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.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.