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 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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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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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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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