Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

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

My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.