Alfred Hitchcock quotes

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

#Inspirational #Bangs #Anticipation

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Murder #Film #Scene

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

#Movie #Funny Life #Gambling

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

#Change #Media #People

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

#Movie #Gambling #Cake

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Murder

In a good marriage each is the others better half.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Half #Good Marriage

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

#Way #Film

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.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Crystals #Calm #Kind

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

#Reality #Men #Murder

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

#Simple #Kitchen #Tables

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

#Movie #Cake #Cinema

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

#Funny #Witty #Smart

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Shock #Beneficial

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Suffering #Audience

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

#Writing #Giving #Wake Up

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Sweet #Revenge #Fattening

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

#Movie #Art #Gambling

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Drama #Writing #Life Is Short

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

#Funny #Sarcastic #Acting

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

#Cutting #Perfect #Cures

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

#Ideas #Good Movie #Sound

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Men #Body #Film

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

#Stupidity #Style #Information

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

#Art #History #Body

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Fear #Children #Yesterday

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

#Snow #Footprint #Victim

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Reality

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Food #Wine #Enemy

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Three #Needs #Scripts

Puns are the highest form of literature.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Funny #Literature #Form

Self-plagiarism is style.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Self #Style #Plagiarism

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Character

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Reality #Glimpse #World

I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Sex #Thinking #Interesting

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Drama #Real #Cutting

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Husband #Wife #Funny Marriage

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Years #Making Money

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Successful #Directors #Villain

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

#Tears #Actors #Casting

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

#Funny #Death #Sarcastic

Ideas come from everything
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Ideas #Mind #Body

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Catholic #Last Words #After Death