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42 quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer. Often nicknamed "The Master of Suspense", he pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, renowned as England's best director, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955. Over a career spanning...
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

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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... →

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

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

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

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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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... →

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