I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Ideas come from everything.
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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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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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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Never judge a country by its politicians.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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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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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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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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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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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 always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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