- Self - Alfred Hitchcock's Granddaughter: He was wonderful when people acknowledged him and asked for autographs. I asked him at one point, "Doesn't it ever bother you, these people bothering you during dinnertime?" And he said, "No, because these are the people that are paying for your dinner."
- Interviewer: You once told me that actors were cattle to be shoved about. I wonder if you'd care to enlarge on that.
- Alfred Hitchcock: You mean you want to make them larger cattle than they are?
- Alfred Hitchcock: Once in the street, a little boy came up to me and said, "Mr. Hitchcock, in that murder scene in 'Psycho', what did you use for blood? Chicken blood?" I said, "No, chocolate sauce." "Okay." And he went on his way. See, the operative phrase was "What did you use for blood?" He didn't believe it.
- Alexandre O. Philippe: There's no such thing, really, as a faithful adaptation of a source material by Hitchcock, He was known for reading the book once, and when he finds the one thing that excites him about a story, he will work with a writer and go in that particular direction and essentially throw the original material away,
- Interviewer: Perish the thought, but if you could only make one more picture, what would it be about.
- Alfred Hitchcock: I think it would be about murder, mayhem, violence, sex, beautifully pictorially expressed, lovely costumes, perfect cutting, and, uh, a joke or two.