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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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I always take the audience into account.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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In 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.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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Ideas come from everything.
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