Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.

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.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.

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.

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.