The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKWhen 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth 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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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