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

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

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.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

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

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

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 have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

One thing about Kane - he never did anything by halves.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.

The diversity of our cultures is Europe's greatest asset. We have to preserve this asset. And any political intervention that reduces this diversity is a loss to Europe.

I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!

A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.

Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.

I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.