Quotes from Alfred Hitchcock

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

Vale más partir del cliché que llegar a él.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders

Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake

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

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many people are interested in the content. If you were painting a still life of some apples on a plate, it's like you'd be worrying whether the apples were sweet or sour. Who cares?

Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima

Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please. Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.

Weren't you ever booed at by your mother?!

Once the screenplay is finished, I'd just as soon not make the film at all ... I have a strongly visual mind. I visualise a picture right down to the final cuts. I write all this out in the greatest detail in the script, and then I don't look at the script while I'm shooting. I know it off by heart, just as an orchestra conductor needs not look at the score ... When you finish the script, the film is perfect. But in shooting it you lose perhaps 40 percent of your original conception

I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about.

I can't forget what it's done to you. I've been thinking of nothing else since it happened. It's gone forever, that funny young, lost look I loved won't ever come back. I killed that when I told you about Rebecca. It's gone. In a few hours, you've grown so much older.

Una storia è come la vita senza le parti noiose.

Meu amor pelo cinema é mais importante do que qualquer moral

By and large, I feel that the more interesting work in the field of murder is done by amateurs. They are people who perform their work with dignity and good taste, leavened with a sense of the grotesque. There is polite and wholesome mayhem, practiced by civilized people, and I personally enjoy it.

I'm frightened of my own movies.

I don't want to appear disloyal to television, but I think reading will be good for you.

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

Mi amor por el cine es más grande que mi moral.

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.

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.

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.