Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

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

Movies, Human, Film

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Alfred Hitchcock

Revenge, Sweet, Fattening

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.'
Alfred Hitchcock

Character, Motivation, Actor

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

Life, Drama, Cut

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.
Alfred Hitchcock

Understand, Inspired, Sound

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

Movies, Good, Worth

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

Best, Snow, Shows

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.
Alfred Hitchcock

Eyes, Tell, Story

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

Good, Off, Idea

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

Perfect, Cut, Cure

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

Said, Treated, Cattle

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

Movies, Life, Cake

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

Give, Same, Pleasure

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

God, Films, Director

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

Funny, Home, Television

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

Life, Drama, Cut

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

Best, Everything, Around

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

Possible, Audience, Suffer

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

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

Simple, Places, Kitchen

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, House, Television

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.
Alfred Hitchcock

Life, Good, Fear

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

Films, Rid, Fears

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

Book, Find, Poor

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

Public, Shocks, Provide

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: August 13, 1899

Died: April 29, 1980

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