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've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
that I am equipped with what other people have called a fiendish sense of humor.
I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.
There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
dun dun dun dun... dun dun dun dun...
You can't direct a Laughton picture. The best you can hope for is to referee.
TV has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.