The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKWhen you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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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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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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