More - Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

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

Alfred Hitchcock

 English Director

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

Alfred Hitchcock

 English Director Home

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

Alfred Hitchcock

 Cinema English Director

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

 

I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. 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.

Alfred Hitchcock

 

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

Alfred Hitchcock

 English Director

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.

Alfred Hitchcock

 

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

Alfred Hitchcock

 English Director Information

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

Alfred Hitchcock

 Burial English Director

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Alfred Hitchcock

 God