Time For Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

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

"This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid." Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them." Alfred Hitchcock

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

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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. On 19 April 1955, he became an American citizen while remaining a British subject.
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"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks." Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Revenge is sweet and not fattening." Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Self-plagiarism is style." Alfred Hitchcock

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