I’m not much into rear window ethics.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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