Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I always take the audience into account.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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