Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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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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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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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