Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

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.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

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.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

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.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.