If I won’t be myself, who will?
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIf 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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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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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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