Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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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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Ideas come from everything.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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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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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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