ALFRED HITCHCOCK QUOTES

Alfred hitchcock quotes show his wry British humor accentuated by his absorbment in the macabre and the weird side of life.

• When an actress asked Hitchcock if her right or left profile was better, he told her, "My dear, you're sitting on your best profile."
  
  
• "Actors are cattle"
  
  
• "I didn't say actors are cattle. What I said was, actors should be treated like cattle."
  
  
• "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.'"
  
  
• "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder"
  
  
• "Television has brought murder back into the home - where it belongs"

 

• "To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be."
  
  
• "Drama is life with the dull bits left out"
  
  
• "If you can’t do it naturally, then fake it." To Ingrid Bergman when she said she could not act certain scenes naturally.
  
  
•  "You know why I favor sophisticated blondes in my films? We're after the drawing-room type, the real ladies, who become whores once they're in the bedroom."
  
  
• Do you know why? Because sex should not be advertised . . .. Because without the element of surprise the scenes become meaningless. There's no possibility to discover sex."
  
  
• "I'm a philanthropist: I give people what they want. People love being horrified, terrified."
  
  
• Self-plagiarism is style.
• My love for cinema is stronger than any morality.