In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred HitchcockOur primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
Alfred HitchcockTo make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
Alfred HitchcockI try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?
Alfred Hitchcock