Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKIn a good marriage each is the others better half.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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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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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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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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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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Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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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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Everything’s perverted in a different way.
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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I’ve become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
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To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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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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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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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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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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One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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