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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
Alfred Hitchcock
Snow
Victims
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock
Body
Coach
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock
God
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
Alfred Hitchcock
Idea
Sound
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock
Police
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
Difficulties
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
Actors
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Alfred Hitchcock
Cure
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
Alfred Hitchcock
Public
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
Alfred Hitchcock
Children
Will
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
Man
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock
Pleasure
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock
Life
Cinema
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
Life
Drama
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Alfred Hitchcock
Revenge