Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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Ideas come from everything.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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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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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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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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