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

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

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

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

I like to get the audiences cozy in their seats, feeling safe, and suddenly they'll be shocked out of their minds.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove that scientifically. It's a fact.

The most powerful weapon is hope.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.