Alfred Hitchcock Quotes - 9quotes.com

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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
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.'
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Self-plagiarism is style.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock

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