202 Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

I’m not much into rear window ethics.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock.

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

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.

I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

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.

It has been rumored that “Psycho” is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.