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Top 45 Alfred Hitchcock Quotes on Life, Film making & Inspiration

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July 3, 2020

Karan Ghai

Who was Alfred Hitchcock?

Alfred Hitchcock, full name – Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock, was born on – August 13, 1899, in Essex, England; Died on – April 29, 1980. He was a filmmaker and producer. In the history of cinema, he is widely recognized and celebrated as one of the greatest filmmakers in the world of entertainment.

His career lasted for six decades in which he got fame even more than the stars he used to cast in his art. He was well known as the “Master of Suspense” with producing 50 feature films. He had done cameos in his movies too, over which the audience used to go crazy. His creations had been nominated in the Oscars for 46, and he had even won 6 of the times.

Early life :

Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899, in England. His father’s name was William Edgar Hitchcock, and his mother’s name was Emma Jane Hitchcock. He was the youngest of the three children they had. Both of his parents were Roman Catholics, with parts of them being in the roots of Ireland. As his grandfather was, his father was also a greengrocer. Alfred was a part of a big extended family with his uncle.

His father always used to try to make him disciplined. He also told in some interview about how he couldn’t remember that he ever had a playmate. When he was five years old, his father sent him to a local police station with a note. The policeman locked him up for a few minutes, saying that that’s what they do with naughty children. That event left Alfred with a lifelong fear of police officers. He was so terrified that even when he grew up, he wouldn’t also drive, saying that he might get a ticket. He wanted to stay far from the laws or anything that has to do something with that.

When he was six years old, that family moved to Limehouse and opened a shop for fish-and-chips. Till the age of seven, Alfred didn’t get to attend any school. Later in 1907, he got into The Howrah House Convent.

Legacy :

Alfred Hitchcock was inducted in the year 1960 on February 8 into the Hollywood walk of fame. The two reasons behind this were: first Television and second for his motion pictures. In the year 1978, he was described as the most genius minded and much-recognized person in the world by an author and a critic named John Russell Taylor. Several magazines also said that he was one of the best and most influential directors of all time. Alfred was known to be one of those directors who purely changed the shape of cinema, and how no one could ever do it like him. He had this magic in his creations that could engage the audience’s emotions like no one else.

Alfred had been nominated in several awards and nominations and also have won so many awards and tags like five-lifetime achievement awards, two Golden Globes, AFI lifetime achievement awards, and so many more.

Compilation of Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

Alfred Hitchcock quotes on Life :

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Love those wrongdoers; they need it more than you.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Never turn your back on a friend.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children?”
― Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock quotes on Creativity :

“There is something more important than logic: imagination”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Ideas come from everything.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Logic is dull.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”
― 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

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock quotes on Film making and Movies :

“To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“If you can’t do it naturally, then fake it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.”
― 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

“The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“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.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Revenge is sweet and not fattening.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“There is nothing more scary than a closed door.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock Inspirational quotes :

“If I won’t be myself, who will?”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Self-plagiarism is style.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’”
― Alfred Hitchcock