Top 42 Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

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

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.

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.

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.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

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

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.'

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