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

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.

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.

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

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.