Explore Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

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

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.

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.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

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

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

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.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

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.

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

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

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.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

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.

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