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
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
I like stories with lots of psychology.
It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
I'm not much into rear window ethics.
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
The best actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well....
For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.