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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."

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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All Quotes by Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Movies

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Best

“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

“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

“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

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Funny

“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

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Movies

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

God

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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