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

Alfred Hitchcock, In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995) British movie director (1899 – 1980)

" 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. "

Alfred Hitchcock British movie director (1899 – 1980)

" This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop. "

Alfred Hitchcock British movie director (1899 – 1980)

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

Alfred Hitchcock British movie director (1899 – 1980)

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

Alfred Hitchcock British movie director (1899 – 1980)

" 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 British movie director (1899 – 1980)

" I never said actors were cattle. I said that actors should be treated like cattle. "

Alfred Hitchcock British movie director (1899 – 1980)

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