Alfred Hitchcock quotes - page 3

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

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock

The lower lip definitely states that all actors are cattle-including the authorǃ.

Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock: You know that I think all actors are cattle?
George Raft: Yes, I know-but I'm no actor. (Alfred Hitchcock)

Deep inside, I am a shy man. And in the presence of colorful characters, I am a clam. I never try to out-eccentric the eccentricsǃ.

Alfred Hitchcock

Actors are cattle. I've always said actors are cattle. In fact, Carole Lombard once built a corral on set and put three live calves into it, in recognition of my feelings. I tell them that, and treat them as such, and we get along fineǃ.

Alfred Hitchcock

We do not recommend suicide as a way of life.

Alfred Hitchcock

If I won't be myself, who will?

Alfred Hitchcock

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

Alfred Hitchcock

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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.

Alfred Hitchcock

There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

Alfred Hitchcock

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

Alfred Hitchcock

In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor. (Alfred Hitchcock)

As a matter of fact, I couldn't work if I weren't on friendly terms with them; I'll bend over backward every time. Besides, I get into each picture I make, if only for a couple of seconds-so I'm probably a frustrated actor at heart myself.

Alfred Hitchcock

Let us say, rather, that actors are a necessary evil.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesnt say.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Occupation: English Director
Born: August 13, 1899
Died: April 29, 1980
Quotes count: 76
Wikipedia: Alfred Hitchcock

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