“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”

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

“The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.”

“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’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.”

“Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima”

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