Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThis award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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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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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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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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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 can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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