Quote by Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)

• In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

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

• Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

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

• This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

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