Everything’s perverted in a different way.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKYou think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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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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