I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

[Of the film, Hayes once said that] Hitchcock wanted to do the movie just for fun, for relief from what he was doing regularly. ... an expensive self-indulgence, though it went over quite well whenever it reached an audience.