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.
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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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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