On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

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

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.