Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

About Alfred Hitchcock:

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English film director and producer. Often nicknamed "The Master of Suspense", he pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema with both silent films and early talkies, renowned as England's best director, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955.
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Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.

Alfred Hitchcock

In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try to tell...

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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.

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.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock

Author Bio

  • NameAlfred Hitchcock
  • DescriptionBritish filmmaker (1899–1980)
  • BornAugust 13, 1899
  • DiedApril 29, 1980
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire