Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah, blah, that lie, that neurotic vision, takes over your life and you're plagued by it 'til it's cleansed. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. [T]he better the play is, the more surprising and inevitable the lie is, as Aristotle told us. Plays are about lies.

I'm responding to the will of the people.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.