The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

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

Life has more imagination than we do.

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

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

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