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Letter "A" » Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
«Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
button, buttons, popped, popping, pops, pop in, pop up, push, push button, toaster, toasters
«These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
arm, asthmatic, bagpipe, bagpipes, carrying, indignant, inspired, inventor, pig, purity, the inventor, The Sound, unfortunately
«In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Movies
| Keywords:
clean, films, murders, To Kill a
«What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out»
«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.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
antagonism, antagonisms, commercials, murder, work off
«The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture»
«Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
contributing, psychiatry, spreading
«For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
cake, cinema, piece of cake, slice, sliced, slices, slicing
«There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.»
«I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it»
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