Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'

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.

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

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.