13 quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

“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

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“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.” — Alfred Hitchcock

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“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.” — Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

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“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

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“Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.” — Alfred Hitchcock

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“In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.” — Alfred Hitchcock

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“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

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

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

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“A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.” — Alfred Hitchcock

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“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

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