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

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 love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.

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

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

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

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