Alfred Hitchcock — "I'm a great believer in telling the audience all the information, so that they'r…"

"I try to avoid clichés."

"I once made a movie, rather tongue-in-cheek, called Psycho. The content was, I felt, rather amusing and it was a big joke. I was horrified to find some people took it seriously. It was intended to mak…"

"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…"

"I always believe in following the advice of the playwright [Victorien] Sardou. He said: 'Torture the women! ' … The trouble today is that we don't torture women enough."

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."