Alfred Hitchcock

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."

"meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid."

"We do not recommend suicide as a way of life."

"I’m not against the police; I'm just afraid of 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."

"In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life."

"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house."

"he director passed off the phrase as one of his "Machiavellian quips," not to be taken seriously. "Let us say, rather, that actors are a necessary evil," he cautioned, with a straight face. "As a matt…"