I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn a good marriage each is the others better half.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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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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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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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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All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
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Ideas come from everything.
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I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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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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