Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

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

[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.