A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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