If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

[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.