I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I always take the audience into account.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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