Quotes By Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

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

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.

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

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.

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.