Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo appearances in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65). Among other accolades, his films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director, despite five nominations.

Quotes

I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle.
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 equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Books
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Television
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
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor, he just tears him up.
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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 brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.
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.'
Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.

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

Movies
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Movies
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Fear