A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

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

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 Quote

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

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 Quote

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

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.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

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 Quote

Self-plagiarism is style.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

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

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

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

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
- Alfred Hitchcock Quote