The Silent Pictures Were The Purest Form

I Don't Understand Why We Have To Experiment With Film. I Think Everything Should Be Done On Paper. A Musician Has To Do It, A Composer. He Puts A Lot Of Dots Down And Beautiful Music Comes Out. And I Think That Students Should Be Taught To Visualize. That's The One Thing Missing In All This. The One Thing That The Student Has Got To Do Is To Learn That There Is A Rectangle Up There - A White Rectangle In A Theater - And It Has To Be Filled.

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.'

There Is No Terror In The Bang, Only In The Anticipation Of It.

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.

Claude Jade Is A Brave Nice Young Lady. But I Don't Give Any Guarantee What She Will Do On A Taxi's Back Seat.