Explore Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

Ideas come from everything

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

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

People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.

A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

Self-plagiarism is style.

I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.