Quotes from Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

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

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

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

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

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

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 as good as the last one.

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

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.

Stay out of jail.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

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

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

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 was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

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.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

Self-plagiarism is style.

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

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

Puns are the highest form of literature.