Alfred Hitchcock movie quotes

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“This paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.”
Alfred Hitchcock

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

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“I'm in on a plot.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“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.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“In Hollywood it's okay to be subtle, as long as you make it obvious.”
Alfred Hitchcock

Like "Gone With the Wind", [Greta] Garbo is monumentally overrated. Her voice is deep, she has no humor, her figure is flat, her carriage is not graceful, her feet are big, her private life is a fog. Only her face is perfect.
Alfred Hitchcock On Greta Garbo

“Self-plagiarism is style.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“Actors are cattle.”

Alfred Hitchcock

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up
from a nightmare.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“Self-plagiarism is style.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance
of the human bladder.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
Alfred Hitchcock

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

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