To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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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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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.
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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 not much into rear window ethics.
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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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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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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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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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