Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
8 quotations by Alfred Hitchcock
 | In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. |  |
| 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. | |
| Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. | |
| Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. | |
| The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. | |
| There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. | |
| The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop. | |
| When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.' | |