There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSomeone 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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