Alfred Hitchcock:

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.

— Alfred Hitchcock Modern

Master of suspense filmmaker

Context

Various interviews

Date / Period

Undated

Source

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/12716.Alfred_Hitchcock

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