Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film...

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same...

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

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