Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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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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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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