Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

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.

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
-Alfred Hitchcock

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.

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … 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.

If you can't do it naturally, then fake it.

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

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

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.

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

In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln's nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission...was rather upset at this thought. I argued until one of their number asked me how I would like it if they had Lincoln play the scene in Cary Grant's nose.

I saw their point at once.

Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake

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

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.