Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKActually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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.
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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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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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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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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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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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