Top 100 Alfred Hitchcock Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “In a good marriage each is the others better half.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

52. “San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

53. “I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

54. “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.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

55. “That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

57. “All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

58. “I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

60. “One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

61. “Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

62. “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.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

63. “Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

64. “Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

65. “There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

66. “Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

67. “I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

68. “A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

69. “Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

70. “Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

71. “In reference to the murder scene in ‘Dial M for murder’ As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

72. “To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

74. “I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

75. “In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

76. “The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

77. “The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

78. “Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

79. “Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

80. “The best actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well...”

— Alfred Hitchcock

81. “You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!”

— Alfred Hitchcock

82. “I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

83. “We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

84. “People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

85. “Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

86. “I’m not much into rear window ethics.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

87. “Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

88. “I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline – production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

89. “I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

90. “A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

91. “Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

92. “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.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

93. “There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

94. “I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

96. “This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

97. “These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

98. “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.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

100. “Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don’t give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many people are interested in the content. If you were painting a still life of some apples on a plate, it’s like you’d be worrying whether the apples were sweet or sour. Who cares?”

— Alfred Hitchcock