Quotes By Alfred Hitchcock

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

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.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Self-plagiarism is style.

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

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.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

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

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.