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Alfred Hitchcock

Read through the most famous quotes from Alfred Hitchcock




A great story is life with the dull parts taken out.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#life

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


— Alfred Hitchcock


#murder #life

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#nightmare #pleasure #same #them #up

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#bang #only #terror

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#documentary #feature #feature films #films #god

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#audience #make #much #possible #suffer

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


— Alfred Hitchcock


#i #like #never #said #should

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#admission #babysitter #dinner #film #good

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


— Alfred Hitchcock


#cut #i #perfect #sore #throat

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.


— Alfred Hitchcock


#clean #difficult #films #how #i






About Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock Quotes




Did you know about Alfred Hitchcock?

" "Well" says the first man "what's a Macguffin?" The other answers "It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands. Ignatius to study at the London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation in Poplar London. As an early 'talkie' the film is often cited by film historians as a landmark film and is often considered to be the first British sound feature film.

Many of the mysteries however are used as decoys or "MacGuffins" that serve the film's themes and the psychological examinations of the characters. Through his cameo appearances in his own films interviews film trailers and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents he became a cultural icon. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres.

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