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.

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

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.

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

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Self-plagiarism is style.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

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

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

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

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

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.