Quote #35

I'm a philanthropist: I give people what they want. People love being horrified, terrified.

More from Alfred Hitchcock

  1. In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
  2. I never said actors were cattle. All I said is that actors should be treated as cattle.
  3. In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them…
  4. Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table
  5. 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 …
  6. The length of the film should be directly related to the endurance of human bladder.
  7. In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
  8. There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

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