"I like to put the audience through it."

"In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it'…"

"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."

"I'm a great believer in telling the audience all the information, and then letting them watch the characters suffer."

"I always believe in following the advice of the playwright [Victorien] Sardou. He said: 'Torture the women! ' … The trouble today is that we don't torture women enough."