I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKCary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Ideas come from everything.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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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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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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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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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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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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