Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980)
British film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre.
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Give them pleasure — the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Puns are the highest form of literature.
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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.
Self-plagiarism is style.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
[This award is] meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
Here is someone … who has an enormous, inordinate, neurotic fear of disorder. And that's from which he makes his art. He always has his people in a moment of disorder. They think they're in control, they think they have power, they think they have order, and then he just slips the rug out from under them to see what they're going to do.
Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.
I'd like to know more about his relationships with women. No, on second thought, I wouldn't.
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … 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.
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
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.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Like Freud, Hitchcock diagnosed the discontents that chafe and rankle beneath the decorum of civilization. Like Picasso or Dali, he registered the phenomenological threat of an abruptly modernised world.
The man with the navy-blue voice.
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