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

- Alfred Hitchcock

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.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

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.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- 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.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

- Alfred Hitchcock

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

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.'

- Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

Self-plagiarism is style.

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Alfred Hitchcock