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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKA 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.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Ideas come from everything.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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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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I always take the audience into account.
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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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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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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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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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