The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKPeople 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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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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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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