Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

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

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

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

Is the cinema more important than life?

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

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.