37 Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock
- The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
- Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
- 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.
- Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
- Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
- This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
- Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
- Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
- The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Self-plagiarism is style.
- The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
- The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
- There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
- 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.
- This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- 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.
- 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.'
- 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.
- Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
- A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
- Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
- 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.
- 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.
- Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
- Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
- In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a 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.
- I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
- I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
- I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
- 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.
- I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
- 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.
- In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
- I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
- Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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