Alfred Hitchcock — "My greatest love is suspense. It's the most exciting thing in the world."

"The good actors are the ones who are good in spite of the director."

"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission, and the babysitter are worth it."

"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'…"

"I enjoy playing the audience like a piano."

"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."