It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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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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