“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.”

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

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.

I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.

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

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

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.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.

He sets fire to my soul and I have never felt so alive.

Sometimes it’s as if we’re an overflowed tank. As if we are holding more than what can really fit inside us.

I am making space for each emotion I need to feel.

I am so incredibly sorry somebody made you feel as though it was difficult to love you.

The feeling of love conquers all heartbreak.

I feel at home in places I’ve never been.

I can’t keep quiet of all that I’m feeling so I won’t.

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.