In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKReality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Ideas come from everything.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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