202 Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

There is something more important than logic: imagination.

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

Everything’s perverted in a different way.

If I won’t be myself, who will?

Weren’t you ever booed at by your mother?!

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.

A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.