Quotes By Alfred Hitchcock

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Self-plagiarism is style.

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.