Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. Im fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldnt make a good suspense film. – Alfred Hitchcock
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didnt change peoples habits. It just kept them inside the house. – Alfred Hitchcock
If its a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. – Alfred Hitchcock
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. – Alfred Hitchcock
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. – Mikhail Baryshnikov