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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn a good marriage each is the others better half.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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 Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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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 length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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