 I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. |
| Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. |
| The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. |
| The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. |
| This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. |
| Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. |
| For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. |
| A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. |
| Self-plagiarism is style. |
| Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. |
| Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work. |
| Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. |
| Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. |
| The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. |
| If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. |
| Revenge is sweet and not fattening. |
| We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. |
| Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. |
| I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one. |
| I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. |
