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 HITCHCOCKTelevision has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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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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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Ideas come from everything.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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