Top 42 Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

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

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

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

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

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.'

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

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.