Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSelf-plagiarism is style.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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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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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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