The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm

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

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings