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Actors, Acting
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I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Advertising
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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.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Authors & Writing
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Control
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I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Crime
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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
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Eggs
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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.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Humor
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I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?'
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Music
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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity the sound achieved by the pig.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Television
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Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Winning, Winners
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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.
-Alfred Hitchcock
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Books by and about Alfred Hitchcock