“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
“Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
“If you can't do it naturally, then fake it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
“Logic is dull.”
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
"There is something more important than logic: imagination."
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
"The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say."
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
"Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?"
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
"The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema"
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
"Ideas come from everything."
― Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)