Top 121 Quotes & Sayings by Alfred Hitchcock
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English director Alfred Hitchcock.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
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.'
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Self-plagiarism is style.
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.
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.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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.
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
There is something more important than logic: imagination
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
If I won't be myself, who will?
Never judge a country by its politicians.
Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
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