“I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.”

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

I always take the audience into account.

You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

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

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.

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.

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.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Best not to know what’s waiting around the corner.

Don’t ask your leader what you should do, tell them what you are going to do.

Not everyone is coming to the future.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.