In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKTelevision is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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