Screenwriting Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

— Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

— Alfred Hitchcock

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…

— Alfred Hitchcock

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…

— Alfred Hitchcock

When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my…

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

— Alfred Hitchcock

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

— Alfred Hitchcock