I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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