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

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."

Hitchcock: "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."

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."

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

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.'"

Hitchcock: "I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."

Hitchcock: "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."

Hitchcock: "Self-plagiarism is style."

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

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

Hitchcock: "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."

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

Hitchcock: "We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."

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