In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
-
-
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Ideas come from everything.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK -
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK