Alfred Hitchcock

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.

I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

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.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

The cinema is not a slice of life, it's a piece of cake.

Film powinien zaczynać się od trzęsienia ziemi, potem zaś napięcie ma nieprzerwanie wzrastać. (Przypisywane)

Style is self-plagiarism.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?

I must apologize for the lack of bloodshed in tonight's program. We shall try to do better next time.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.