Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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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 so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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