In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

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

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

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.

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

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

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.