Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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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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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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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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I always take the audience into account.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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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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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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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.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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