Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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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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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 have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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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 was an uncommonly unattractive young man.
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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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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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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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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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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.
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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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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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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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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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I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval.
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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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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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