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 HITCHCOCKOur primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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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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