Quotes By Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

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

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

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

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.