202 Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

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.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

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 don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.