There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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.
Self-plagiarism is style.
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
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.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
