Alfred Hitchcock

“The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.”

“Stay out of jail.”

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.”

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”

“Ideas come from everything”

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

“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

“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 equal...”

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

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

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”

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

“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.”