Alfred Hitchcock

“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”

“Self-plagiarism is style.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.”

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

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

“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.”

“The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.”

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”

“The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.”

“I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.”

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

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