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Alfred Hitchcock
English
Director
About the author
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,
English
Director
#Work
#Will
#Television
#Help
#Murder
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,
English
Director
#People
#Eyes
#Sound
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Revenge
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Life
#Drama
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Life
#Cinema
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Pleasure
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,
English
Director
#Man
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.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Will
#Children
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Public
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Cure
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Actors
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,
English
Director
#Difficulties
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Police
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,
English
Director
#Idea
#Sound
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#God
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Coach
#Body
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Snow
#Victims
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Successful
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Kitchen
#Tenderness
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.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Want
#Time
#Work
#Waste
#Murder
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Home
#Television
#Murder
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Information
#Television
#Psychiatry
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#American
#Television
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#People
#Television
#Change
#Invention
#Habits
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Film
#Endurance
Self-plagiarism is style.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Style
#Self
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Will
#Poor
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Terror
#Anticipation
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Nothing
#Sea
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,
English
Director
#Man
#Sound
#Purity
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,
English
Director
#Life
#Film
#Fear
#Luck
#Suspense
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Will
#Poor
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.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Time
#People
#Idea
#Living
#Order
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Life
#Drama
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,
English
Director
#Character
#Actor
#Motivation
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.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Eye
#Nothing
#Mind
#Winning
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Disney
#Actor
#Tears
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Film
#Worth
#Theatre
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director
#Life
#Movies
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Alfred Hitchcock,
English
Director