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.

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.

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

There is something more important than logic: imagination