Alfred Hitchcock

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

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

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

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

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

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

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

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

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

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

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Self-plagiarism is style.

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

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.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

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

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.