Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

"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 in Movies quotes.

"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

"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 in Money quotes.

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

"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 equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."
-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."
-Alfred Hitchcock in Television quotes.

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

"There's 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

"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."
-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 in Books quotes.

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

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

"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food."
-Alfred Hitchcock

"I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle."
-Alfred Hitchcock

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

"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

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
-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. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like."
-Alfred Hitchcock