Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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