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Alfred Hitchcock

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A name that surfaces again and again in collections of great quotes, Alfred Hitchcock clearly understood the power of language. Their thinking spans from Movies to Best, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Discover 13 of Alfred Hitchcock's most memorable quotes, ranging across Movies, Best, Science, Home, and Good. A line that stays with you: "In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director."

“In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

God

All Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

“In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

God

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Best

“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

Science

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Best

“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

Best

“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

Change

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Funny

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Movies

“Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

Fear

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Movies

“If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

Good

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Movies