A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Film lovers are sick people.

I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a ‘bus movie.’