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Alfred Hitchcock Quotes


A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Actors are cattle.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

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

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.

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

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

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

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

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

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.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

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.

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

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.