A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.