Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Alfred Hitchcock on Wise Famous Quotes.
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book
it makes a very poor doorstop.
it makes a very poor doorstop.
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.
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.
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
-Alfred Hitchcock
-Alfred Hitchcock
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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 reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.
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.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.