Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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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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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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