I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.