Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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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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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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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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