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 HITCHCOCKSeeing 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Ideas come from everything.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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