13 Alfred Hitchcock Quotes on Film

Alfred Hitchcock quotes on film

1. Some movies are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake...

2. The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

14. Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

19. Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

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

29. 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.'

30. 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.

34. In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

36. I never said actors were cattle. All I said is that actors should be treated as cattle.

38. The length of the film should be directly related to the endurance of human bladder.

44. To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

48. Walt Disney has the best casting system. If he don't like an actor, he just tears him up.

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