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.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKHappiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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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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Never turn your back on a friend.
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Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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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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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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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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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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