I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Puns are the highest form of literature.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

— Alfred Hitchcock

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.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Stay out of jail.

— Alfred Hitchcock