Alfred Hitchcock

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Alfred Hitchcock

I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Alfred Hitchcock

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Alfred Hitchcock

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

Alfred Hitchcock

I like stories with lots of psychology.

Alfred Hitchcock

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, astatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

Alfred Hitchcock

I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

Alfred Hitchcock