hitchcock Quotes

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

“People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.”

“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.”

“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.”

“I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”

“Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.”

“They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.”

“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.”

“Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.”

“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”