Words matter. These are the best Alfred Hitchcock Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline – production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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.