There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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