From Denny: Who was the director who popularized the genre of horror movie-making? The more polite terms of his movie-making would be known as suspense and psychological thrillers. Answer, of course: Britain's own Alfred Hitchcock. This director became well known also for inserting himself briefly into his movies with an odd cameo appearance. You never knew what to expect from him.
When you read some of his quotes you start to get inside his head. The guy had some seriously twisted thinking with a humorous edge. Somehow, Halloween just seems to be his season... creep on, Alfred!
Quotes
* Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
* Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
* Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
* I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.
* I am a typed (cast) director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
* The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
* I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
* In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
* Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
* I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
* 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.
* Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
* When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'