Alfred Hitchcock Quotes on Film
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Some movies are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake...
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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I once received a letter from a mother ambitious for her daughter. It read: 'I have a perfectly beautiful daughter. She is seventeen years old, five feet three inches tall, and weighs eight stone. Do you think she might succeed in films?' I replied 'Madam, it would be impossible to say, as you did not state her width.'
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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.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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I never said actors were cattle. All I said is that actors should be treated as cattle.
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The length of the film should be directly related to the endurance of human bladder.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Walt Disney has the best casting system. If he don't like an actor, he just tears him up.
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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