Alfred Hitchcock Quotes on Fear, Suspense, and Filmmaking
Explore 25 brilliant Alfred Hitchcock quotes on fear, suspense, and filmmaking that reveal the wit and genius of the Master of Suspense.
“Style is plagiarizing yourself.”
“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.'”
“There is something more important than logic: it’s imagination.”
“Television is like toasters: you press the button and it always comes out the same.”
“Never turn your back on a friend.”
“Dialogue should be simply a sound, among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”
“Blondes make the best victims. They are like virgin snow, which shows the bloody footprints.”
“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules to give people in the next century some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own time capsules. I have put in some samples of dynamite, gunpowder and nitroglycerine. My time capsule will go back to the year 3000. It will show them what we really are.”
“Even my failures make money and become classics within a year of making them.”
“I have the perfect cure for a sore throat: cutting it.”
“In movies murders are always very clean. I am going to show how difficult and messy it is to kill a man.”
“I am a philanthropist: I give people what they want. People love to be horrified, terrified.”
“The length of the movie should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
“There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
– In response to her thriller style
“For me, Psycho was a great comedy. It had to be.”“Your best side? My dear, you’re sitting on it.”
– To Kim Novak, actress in Rear Window.“This award is significant because it comes from my fellow celluloid merchants.”
“There’s nothing quite as good as a funeral at sea. It’s simple, clean, and not too incriminating.”
“There’s no terror in a punch, only in the anticipation of it.”
“The newspaper is very interesting, but I don’t think it will ever replace the book because it’s a very poor doorstop.”
“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.”
“The length of a film should be directly related to the patience of the human urinary bladder.”
“Television is like the invention of home-made soldering. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them indoors.”
“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as by contributing to the need for it.”
“Some of our strangest murders are domestic, carried out with tenderness in simple, homely places like the kitchen table.”
“Self-plagiarism is the style.”
“Watching a murder on television can help gradually take the antagonisms out of it. And if you don’t have any antagonisms, commercials will give you some.”
“You should never set up a murder. They should happen unexpectedly, as in life.”
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