"Puns are the highest form of literature."
- Alfred Hitchcock
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
"Revenge is sweet and not fattening."
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
"Ideas come from everything"
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop."
"Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the..."
"Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet..."
"In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it'..."
"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."