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Never turn your back on a friend. — Alfred Hitchcock

All babies look like Alfred Hitchcock. Or Winston Churchill. — Suzanne Brockmann

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out. — 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 have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. — Alfred Hitchcock

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later. — Alfred Hitchcock

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room. — Alfred Hitchcock

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

Weren't you ever booed at by your mother?! — Alfred Hitchcock

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

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man. — Alfred Hitchcock

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. — Alfred Hitchcock

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema — Alfred Hitchcock

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you. — Alfred Hitchcock

Atticus, I think we're being stalked by the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock. First it was a Vulture adn now two giant ravens are coming our way. Oberon — Kevin Hearne

T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs. — Alfred Hitchcock

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character. — 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

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike. — Heather O'Rourke

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks. — Alfred Hitchcock

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. — Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything. — Giles Duley

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up. — Alfred Hitchcock

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. — Alfred Hitchcock

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say. — Alfred Hitchcock

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor. — Alfred Hitchcock

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life. — Tippi Hedren

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them. — Alfred Hitchcock

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. — Alfred Hitchcock

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. — Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.' — Clint Eastwood

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. — Alfred Hitchcock

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. — Alfred Hitchcock

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play Alfred Hitchcock. I have to play him even though I know what this is going to involve.' — Toby Jones

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned. — Alfred Hitchcock

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. — Alfred Hitchcock

I'm not much into rear window ethics. — Alfred Hitchcock

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

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality. — Alfred Hitchcock

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot! — Alfred Hitchcock

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. — Alfred Hitchcock

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

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script. — Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock was one of the few people in Hollywood who had a brand. Every movie he made was an Alfred Hitchcock movie, couldn't have been anyone else. — David Chase

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. — Alfred Hitchcock

I like stories with lots of psychology. — Alfred Hitchcock

It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid. — Alfred Hitchcock

If you can't do it naturally, then fake it. — Alfred Hitchcock

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. — Alfred Hitchcock

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. — Alfred Hitchcock

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions. — Alfred Hitchcock

The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made. — Alfred Hitchcock

Never judge a country by its politicians. — Alfred Hitchcock

The best actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well ... — Alfred Hitchcock

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

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life. — Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. — Alfred Hitchcock

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery. — Alfred Hitchcock

I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about — Alfred Hitchcock

A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder — Alfred Hitchcock

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. — Alfred Hitchcock

Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake — Alfred Hitchcock

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record. — Stan Lee

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. — Alfred Hitchcock

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is. — Kelly Lynch

Revenge is sweet and not fattening. — Alfred Hitchcock

I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. — Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. — Alfred Hitchcock

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen. — Alfred Hitchcock

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. — Alfred Hitchcock

Self-plagarism is style. — Alfred Hitchcock

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

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes. — Alfred Hitchcock

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. — Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life. — Alfred Hitchcock

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films. — Alfred Hitchcock

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. — Alfred Hitchcock

Ideas come from everything — Alfred Hitchcock

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you. — Alfred Hitchcock

Self-plagiarism is style. — Alfred Hitchcock

There is something more important than logic: imagination — Alfred Hitchcock

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them. — Alfred Hitchcock

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

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal. — Alfred Hitchcock

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be. — Alfred Hitchcock

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. — Alfred Hitchcock

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. — Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. — Bob Seger

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. — Alfred Hitchcock

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was. — John Waters

My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock. — Darin Strauss

Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please.
Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates
Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane. — Alfred Hitchcock

Puns are the highest form of literature. — Alfred Hitchcock

That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen. — Alfred Hitchcock

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. — Alfred Hitchcock

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much. — Tippi Hedren

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh. — Ingrid Bergman

Mystery is an intellectual process ... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. — Alfred Hitchcock