Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTelevision is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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I always take the audience into account.
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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