Alfred Hitchcock — "I try to get inside the minds of my characters, even the villains."

"There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."

"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…"

"I don't care about the subject matter; I don't care about the acting; but I do care about the pieces of film and the photography and the soundtrack and all of the technical ingredients that made the a…"

"I try to avoid clichés."

"The element of surprise is very important in my films."