Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE, was an English film director and producer, at times referred to as "The Master of Suspense". He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. He had a successful career in British cinema with both silent films and early talkies and became renowned as England's best director. Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth13 August 1899
CityLondon, England
Alfred Hitchcock quotes about
that I am equipped with what other people have called a fiendish sense of humor.
Here's a choice item, very rare. Only 740,000 were ever made!
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
There is something more important than logic: imagination
That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
I'm not much into rear window ethics.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.