For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I always take the audience into account.
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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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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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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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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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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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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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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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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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