I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
—Alfred Hitchcock
Topics: Police
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
Topics: Audiences
I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
—Alfred Hitchcock
Topics: Actors, Acting
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
—Alfred Hitchcock
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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
Topics: Luck
Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
—Alfred Hitchcock
There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
—Alfred Hitchcock
Topics: One liners, Fear
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
—Alfred Hitchcock
Topics: Crime, Audiences
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