Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

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

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.

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

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

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

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

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

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

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.

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

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’.

Television has brought back murder into the home—where it belongs.

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

Actors are cattle.