If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKI have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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Mystery is an intellectual process. But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
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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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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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I always take the audience into account.
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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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It’s only a movie, and, after all, we’re all grossly overpaid.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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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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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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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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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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