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.
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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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