Alfred Hitchcock — "The more you frighten the audience, the more they love you."

"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 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…"

"Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, everyone's afraid of something."

"I like to tease the audience, to make them work for it."

"Logic is dull. There is no joy in logic."