Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKWe 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.
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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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’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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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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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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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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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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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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