Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Alfred Hitchcock Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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.-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.
— 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
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
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
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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
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
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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
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