Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Kitchen, Tenderness)
"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."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Work, Time, Murder, Want, Waste)
"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Home, Murder, Television)
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Information, Psychiatry, Television)
"This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid."
- Alfred Hitchcock
"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: American, Television)
"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Change, People, Habits, Invention, Television)
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Endurance, Film)
"Self-plagiarism is style."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Self, Style)
"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."
- Alfred Hitchcock
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Poor, Will)
"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Anticipation, Terror)
"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Nothing, Sea)
"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."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Man, Purity, Sound)
"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."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Life, Fear, Film, Luck, Suspense)
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Poor, Will)
"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."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Time, People, Idea, Living, Order)
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Life, Drama)
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Motivation, Character, Actor)
"There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Winning, Eye, Mind, Nothing)
"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Actor, Disney, Tears)
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Film, Theatre, Worth)
"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Movies, Life)
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."
- Alfred Hitchcock
"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Work, Help, Murder, Television, Will)
"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."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: People, Eyes, Sound)
"Revenge is sweet and not fattening."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Revenge)
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Life, Drama)
"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Life, Cinema)
"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Pleasure)
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Man)
"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."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Children, Will)
"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Public)
"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Cure)
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Actors)
"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."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Difficulties)
"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Police)
"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."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Idea, Sound)
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: God)
"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Body, Coach)
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Snow, Victims)