I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKLuck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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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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