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I try to offset any tendency ...

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

It's only a movie, and, after...

It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

Man does not live by murder a...

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

I’m frightened of eggs, worse...

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

Cary Grant is the only actor ...

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

When you can look forward, an...

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.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

[When accepting the American ...

[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

We seem to have a compulsion ...

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. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

We seem to have a compulsion t...

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.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

If it's a good movie, the soun...

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

In feature films the director ...

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

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

Luck is everything... My good ...

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.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

Disney has the best casting. I...

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

Blondes make the best victims....

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

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

Television is like the inventi...

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

I'm full of fears and I do my ...

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.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

Making a film means, first of ...

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 146 quotes

I'm a writer and, therefore, a...

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

Self-plagarism is style....

Self-plagarism is style.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

I enjoy playing the audience l...

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Alfred Hitchcock 146 quotes

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