Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThere is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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