Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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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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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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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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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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