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.

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.

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

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

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.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

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.