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 has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. – Alfred Hitchcock
In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director. – Alfred Hitchcock
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. – Alfred Hitchcock
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because its shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not. – Sebastian Junger