Quotes By Alfred Hitchcock

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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