In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
Alfred HitchcockOur primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
Alfred HitchcockTelevision has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred HitchcockWe 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.
Alfred Hitchcock