All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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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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Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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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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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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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