Never turn your back on a friend.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThis award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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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