I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTo me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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