Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKMystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKDisney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKRevenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSuspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIdeas come from everything.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSome of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKWhen 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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKYou think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTelevision is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKReality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK