Best 92 quotes of Alfred Hitchcock on MyQuotes

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.

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

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

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

A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder

A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

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.

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

Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

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.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Everything's perverted in a different way.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

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

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

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 don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.

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.

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

I like stories with lots of psychology.

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.

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

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

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

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.

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.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

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.

It has been rumored that "Psycho" is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

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.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde.