Alfred Hitchcock:
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
Alfred Hitchcock
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Alfred Hitchcock
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
Alfred Hitchcock
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock
Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock
Self-plagiarism is style.
Alfred Hitchcock
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Alfred Hitchcock
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
Alfred Hitchcock