# The most famous Alfred Hitchcock quotes

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out", actors as cattle and murder brought back into the home: the Master of Suspense's wittiest and best-known lines, with where he said them.

- 31 votes · 12 items
- Dec 5, 2018 · versefan_cebu
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## Top 12

1. **The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Quoted in Hitchcock by François Truffaut (1967).
2. **Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Picture Parade, BBC (5 July 1960).
3. **I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Newsweek (11 June 1956).
4. **One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — National Observer (15 August 1966).
5. **I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Quoted in Hitchcock by François Truffaut (1985).
6. **You can't direct a Laughton picture. The best you can hope for is to referee.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Films and Filming (1963).
7. **There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Attributed to him in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984).
8. **I deny that I ever said actors are cattle. What I said was, "Actors should be treated like cattle."** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Speech at the Screen Producers Guild awards.
9. **Puns are the highest form of literature.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Dick Cavett Show (8 June 1972).
10. **Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — NY Journal-American (25 August 1965).
11. **Self-plagiarism is style.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The Observer (8 August 1976).
12. **Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Quoted in Hitchcock by François Truffaut (1967).

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