Alfred Hitchcock

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. ”

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

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. ”

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. ”

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

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. ”

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. ”

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. ”

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 equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. ”