I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSeeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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I always take the audience into account.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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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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One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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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 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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Ideas come from everything.
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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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