Top 42 Quotes by 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 on.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

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

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

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.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

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