Alfred Hitchcock on art
Alfred Hitchcock98 quotes“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 work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock 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.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock 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 HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock 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.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock There is something more important than logic: imagination.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock I like stories with lots of psychology.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Never judge a country by its politicians.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock I always take the audience into account.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
PlutarchPlutarch I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Nature is the art of God.
Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri True art comes from flying with the madness so close you burn your eyelashes.
AtticusAtticus What is art without the human touch before it all gets dark.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers The art of being uncomfortable is a fine one it is necessary to become strong.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers All she built had fallen apart it’s OK she believed destruction was art.
Shannon Van AlstShannon Van Alst