Alfred Hitchcock quotes and words of wisdom

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one"s antagonisms. And if you haven"t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Found in the topic Murder.

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
Found in the topic Funerals.

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
Found in the topic Movies.

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book ? it makes a very poor doorstop."
Found in the topic Book.

"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
Found in the topic Cut.

"Give them pleasure?the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
Found in the topic Dream.

"Self-plagiarism is style."
Found in the topic Style.

"There"s nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."
Found in the topic Win.

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
Found in the topic Television.

Interesting Quotes

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.Walter Anderson

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell - English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)