5 Alfred Hitchcock Quotes on Culture

Alfred Hitchcock quotes on culture

6. I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes : have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.

28. It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid....

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

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

53. Like Freud, Hitchcock diagnosed the discontents that chafe and rankle beneath the decorum of civilization. Like Picasso or Dali, he registered the phenomenological threat of an abruptly modernised world. - Peter Conrad