Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
Alfred HitchcockClaude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
Alfred HitchcockWhen we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
Alfred HitchcockIt seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
Alfred HitchcockSuspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.
Alfred HitchcockThe paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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 HitchcockSome of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred HitchcockI always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
Alfred Hitchcock[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.
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