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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Myself Surprise
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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Cook Film Oppression Woman
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Director Film God
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Best Himself
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Emotional Intellectual Mystery Suspense
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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Difficult Kill Men Reality
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Expectation Funny Murder Oneself
There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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Imagination Important Logic
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 HITCHCOCK

Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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Comedy Film Myself
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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Money Myself Power
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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Eyes People Simplicity Sound Story Visual
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Future Myself Remember
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Cut Funny Myself Perfection

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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