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 Copy Share Image
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… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
