Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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.
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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.
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.
