Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKOne never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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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.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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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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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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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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