Alfred Hitchcock
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
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
"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
"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
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 is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
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
"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
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
"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
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
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
Alfred Hitchcock
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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
"Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement."
Alfred Hitchcock
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