QUOTES ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Here are 28 quotes from Alfred Hitchcock:

“I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.”

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

“The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.”

“I’m not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.”

“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.”

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.”

“Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children?”

“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.”

“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.”

“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” QUOTES ABOUT CHILD LOVE

“The only way to be sure is to see the body.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.”

“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.”

“Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”

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

“To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script, and the script.”

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

Note: Please be aware that some of these quotes may have variations in wording depending on the source.