Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

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

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

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

You know what I think? I think that . . . we're all in our private traps — clamped in them — and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.

I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are . Had the beautiful Miss Reville not accepted a lifetime contract without options as Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock some 53 years ago, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock might be in this room tonight, not at this table but as one of the slower waiters on the floor.

Σ' ένα διήγημα , η αγωνία είναι το χαρακτηριστικό εκείνο που σας προκαλεί την επιθυμία να συνεχίζετε να διαβάζετε για μάθετε τι θα συμβεί μετά.

Una storia è come la vita senza le parti noiose.

I'm frightened of my own movies.

Ideas come from everything

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.

The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book — it makes a very poor doorstop.

If I won't be myself, who will?

وقتی که فیلمنامه نوشته شد، کار کسالت بار فیلمبرداری آغاز میشود.

I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, astatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig.