I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSuspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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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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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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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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.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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