I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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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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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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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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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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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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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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