It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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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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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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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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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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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 is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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