If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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