Alfred Hitchcock — "I have a great desire to shock people."

"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.'"

"The art of terror is to make people comfortable and then pull the rug out from under them."

"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."

"I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there's that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have y…"

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