Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

“Blondes make the best victims. Theyre like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”

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

“Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare”

“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.”

“In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They dont want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.”

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening”

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

“Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. Im fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldnt make a good suspense film.”

“(when talking to a fans mother who was complaining that her daughter would no longer go in the shower after watching Phsyco)Then madam I suggest you dry-clean her”

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”

“Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.”

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

“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasnt any.”

“Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.”

“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldnt have in your home.”

“Ill always be there because Im a skilled professional actor. Whether or not Ive any talent is beside the point.”

“You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves”

“You cant direct a Laughton picture. The best you can hope for is to referee.”

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