Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

British filmmaker (1899–1980)

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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. He is a well-known man and an award-winning director. He directed and produced three of the American Film Institute Top 100 Films, Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), and North by Northwest (1959), two psychological thrillers and a suspense film. Additionally, Vertigo was rated as the best film of all time in the 2012 British Film Institute Sight and Sound poll of the greatest films of all time.

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Pen Names: Hitchcock

Birth Name: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

Alternative Names: Sir Alfred Hitchcock • Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock • The Master of Suspense • Master of Suspense • Alfred J. Hitchcock • Sir Alfred J. Hitchcock

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

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

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

I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about

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

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

T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.

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. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

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

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

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

In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between.

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.

A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive… I can’t bear quarreling, I can’t bear feelings between people — I think hatred is wasted energy, and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive — a sharp word, said by a person, say, who has a temper, if they’re close to me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions, but when all these are removed and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something — I think that’s as happy as I’ll ever want to be.