Alfred Hitchcock Quotes on Psychology
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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.
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Your best side? My dear, you're sitting on it.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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.
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I'm a philanthropist: I give people what they want. People love being horrified, terrified.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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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