Author: Alfred Hitchcock

Quotes

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

- Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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.

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.

- Alfred Hitchcock

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

- Alfred Hitchcock

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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