I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKYou think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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