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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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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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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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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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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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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.
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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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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.’
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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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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Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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