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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Alfred Hitchcock

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Creation Happiness Road Wisdom
You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Beautiful Herself Thinking
For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Humor Myself Value
Never turn your back on a friend.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Cheating Friendship
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Pay
Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Funny Literature One Liner
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Photograph Silence
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.’
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Character Himself Motivational
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Discover Excitement Imagination Men Relationship Woman
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Expression Eyes Feeling People Person Reveal Thinking
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Art Audience Body History Myself
Everything’s perverted in a different way.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Different Thinking
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Egg Fear Worst
To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Comedy Film Myself
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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Nice Sex Woman Young

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