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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKEven my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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