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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I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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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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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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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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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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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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If I won’t be myself, who will?
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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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.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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