Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The convent...

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be...

In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept ...

Stay out of jail.

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

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...

In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photo...

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living i...

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduc...

Ideas come from everything

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please."Anthony Perkin's Norman Bate...

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

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. W...

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

Luck is everything. ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to ...

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more i...

There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many pictures continually ...