A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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If 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.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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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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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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