"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours t…"

"When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way…"

"People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually gi…"

"In this profession, I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are pu…"

"I think he's a very good technician. And he has something in Psycho, he had some moments. Psycho is one of his most i…"

"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images."

"I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army …"

"I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and ver…"

"I was very cruel to actors and to other people. I think I was a very, very unpleasant young man. If I met the young I…"

"Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that mom…"