I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSome of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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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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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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When 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.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Ideas come from everything.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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