The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKConversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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Ideas come from everything.
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Someone 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.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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