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 HITCHCOCKIdeas come from everything.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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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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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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When 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.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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