If I won’t be myself, who will?
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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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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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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I always take the audience into account.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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